reading from a serial port (boot)

[Oleg Broytmann]

The permissions of the script and mydaemin.py are mostly irrelevant here.
The permissions of the ttyS0 is releveant. You have to start you programs
as user root or as a user with the group uucp.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:25:50AM +0200, mixo wrote:
> My serial port permission look like this:
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  64 Dec 11 07:54 ttyS0
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Now I have a script that starts up as the machine boots and
> read from the serial port. My problem is, it does not get
> anything from the port, unless I manualy start it as 'root'.
> What do I need do /change to get it to start reading at
> boot time?
> 
> P.S
>      The script to start the daemon has the following  permissions
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1463 Dec 10 17:29 myscript.sh
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
>      The daemon itself,
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3678 Dec 10 16:04 mydaemon.py
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Oleg.
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