The proper way to do it is to change the permission settings back to the way they were, and add your username to group uucp. Doing it that way allows the system to be used by different users. On Wed, 2005-12-01 at 20:56 +1000, Robert Hart wrote: > Hi > > Well, I've now found the port the palm is connecting to - and the > permissions and ownership seem ok (I am operating as user hartr). > > [root@bree dev]# ls -l | grep -y usb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 12 20:45 pilot -> ttyUSB1 > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Jan 12 20:45 ttyUSB0 > crw------- 1 hartr uucp 188, 1 Jan 12 20:45 ttyUSB1 > That should be : crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188,... As you can see group uucp has read/write permission. Anytime you need access to a device that has group read/write, add your username to that group rather than mess with the permissions. Good luck > > But I still get... > > pi_bind Invalid argument > Check your serial port and settings > Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND > Finished > > Now - I am just wondering if the issue is that Jpilot is > expecting /dev/pilot to be a serial port rather than USB and is > incorrectly sending the data. > > I am completely stumped! > -- > Robert Hart hartr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > +61 (0)438 385 533 > Brisbane, Australia http://www.hart.wattle.id.au > -- Guy Fraser Network Administrator The Internet Centre 1-888-450-6787 (780)450-6787
