Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS

[Herman (ISTD)]

Dear Arno,

Thx for your tips. It works with udev .

Best Regards,

Herman 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:05 PM
> To: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> On 1/22/2007 10:52 AM, Herman (ISTD) wrote:
> > May be sudo could solve this problem but not permanently, since sudo
> > only add root rights to user for certain period of time.
> > Is there any way to make devs such as serial line and USB controlled
by
> > certain user ?
> 
> That's done by another part of the OS, for example udev.
> 
> Basically you configure how device links are created for hot-plugged
> devices.
> 
> You'll have to tell us the OS and its version at least... or look up
the
> documentation for your system, or ask the mailing list / support /
frum
> for your OS.
> 
> > Another question, is it common to run nagios as root ?
> 
> Depends.
> 
> I strongly adviso to not run Nagios as root - only processes that
really
> need root permissions should be run as such, and Nagios definitely
does
> not need root access to your system.
> 
> Arno
> 
> > Thx.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Herman
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [mailto:andy.shellam-
> >>lists at mailnetwork.co.uk]
> >>Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:12 PM
> >>To: Herman (ISTD)
> >>Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
> >>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS
> >>
> >>Herman (ISTD) wrote:
> >>
> >>>Dear all,
> >>>
> >>>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 ?
> >>>Thank you.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Will "sudo" not accomplish this?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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