On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 19:32, Michael Havens wrote:
> I did this and it gives me an error.
> 
> Read/Write permission failed on 
> Cradle (/dev/pilot)
> Check the permissions on the device and retry
> 
> So how do I check permissions?
> 
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as user - you probably can't change them

as root - you probably can

it's likely that /dev/pilot is a symbolic link to the serial/USB port it
is connected to.

ls -l /dev/pilot
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Apr 30 08:46 /dev/pilot ->
/dev/ttyS0

is a symbolic link - as opposed to
ls -l /dev/ttyS0
crw-------    1 craig    uucp       4,  64 Oct  2 23:48 /dev/ttyS0

which is where the permissions lie.

perhaps you have a process already under control of the device...try
killev
which will close evolution and kill all the processes.

I don't run X-Windows as root so if that is what you are doing, that may
cause some issues as well.

Craig