[TLUG]: FC4: Ways to use PalmPilot

[Robert Locke]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:26 -0400, pking123 at sympatico.ca wrote:
> I found I was able to use JPilot, and it appears to do what I want. 
> But I seem to have run into a "feature" in FC4 which resets the 
> permissions on /dev/ttyS0 to 660 from 666. 
> 
> I have looked through the kernel docs, and I do not suspect the 
> kernel is doing this. Any suggestions as to what is responsible for 
> resetting these permissions, and how do I make these changes 
> permanent?
> 
> Paul King

Hi Paul,

You are battling with udev....  Turns out that every time you reboot,
the /dev/ directory is wiped out.  The files are regenerated by udev
when the system boots or you and I dynamically plug something in.

Now you can look to manipulate the udev rules to automatically create
your symlink of /dev/pilot, for example, there are several examples in
the archives.  But the system should probably already have a rule to
assign the "logged-in user" as the owner of the serial port or any
dynamically created USB ports....  You can see some of this
in /etc/udev/rules.d/....

--Rob