Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Herman (ISTD) wrote:

> I use gnokii to send Nagios notification. Gnokii need to access
> /dev/ttyUSB0 in order to deliver message to Handphone. At present, I
> need to set nagios user to root group in order to accomplish this task.
> If the nagios user is not in root group, it could not access
> /dev/ttyUSB0.
>
> Previously when nagios user is not in root group, I tried to do some
> workarounds such as : chown nagios /dev/ttyUSB0 but it didn't work. Is
> there's any way to access /dev/ttyUSB0 without setting nagios user as
> root group ?

There is a touch one. USB devices get removed and recreated so if you set 
it once it will be gone the next time.

Hugo.

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