[TLUG]: FC4: Ways to use PalmPilot

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:02 -0400, Robert Locke wrote:
> 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/....
> 
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YMMV
you might want to check out this web site...
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules
KERNEL="ttyUSB1",SYMLINK="pilot"

# cat /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-udev.permissions
#set Palm Pilot rwx
pilot*:craig:usb:0666

Craig