On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 21:42 US/Pacific, Rob Stockley wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 18:35, Herbert Graf wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:37, Herbert Graf wrote:
>>>> Was wondering if someone here would be able to help me with
>>>> something.
>>>>
>>>> I have a script on a linux machine that runs a program that
>>>> accesses the
>>>> parallel port. It seems that I can only access the port as
>>> root. The problem
>>>> is I'd like to run the script as apache (in the cgi-bin).
>>>>

I've heard of a similar problem addressed by simply changing the 'file'
protection of /dev/whatever-the-parallel-port-is-called to permit
non-root access.  Have you tried that?

BillW

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