How to setup hyper terminal in Red hat linux

[Binu_5]

Hi aLL

How can I set up hyper terminal in Linux ..I have connect one more system through the
serial port of the server ..
Please help

Binu

[Gopi Sekar · Accepted solution]

you can use 'minicom' a console based application.

for more info, read 'man minicom'

Hope this helps,
Gopi

[Jerome Henry]

So do I... minicom is the way to go I feel.
im not aware of any hyper terminal (m$ product) for Linux.

hth

J

[Binu_5]

Hi Gopi

I have configured the minicom ..But I want to add all the nis users to user this serial port ...
Bu ti f I access the port using other users
error is poppinng up
thisDevice /dev/ttyS0 access failed: Permission denied.
Also if look into the file permission of minirc.dfl write acces is aonly for root
Can we change it

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214 Jun 24 09:15 minirc.dfl

Thanks
Binu

[Gopi Sekar]

Your problem is not the configuration file. You problem is the permission set for /dev/ttyS0.

Default permission of this file is:
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Jun 18 22:13 /dev/ttyS0

which means only root user and the users belong to the group uucp is allowed to access this device. so add the users who wants to access this device in uucp group and they should be able to access it

Hope this helps,
Gopi