Small linux changes #50
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| sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER | ||
| sg dialout "npm start" |
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When you download the binaries "npm start" won't be the executable. What does this command do exactly?
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It's a cousin of the newgrp(1) tool that logs into a new group. sg(1) let's you run a command as a different group, so you don't really need to log off or reboot in this case.
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Maybe we should leave this line out then because there could be different groups and I'm unsure what command we would run... maybe "flasher.js" but I don't know to be precise. I guess people can log in and out quickly
| if (groups.match(/(dialout|tty|uucp)/)) { | ||
| success(); | ||
| } else { | ||
| const dialoutMissingError = new Error(ERROR_MESSAGES.USER_NOT_IN_DIALOUT); |
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Can you update the Error message to match the tty and uucp groups too?
| To add your user account to the group run the following command in your terminal: | ||
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| sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER |
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In other distros does it need to be tty or uucp instead of dialout?
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Yes, but I didn't want to make the message too long. Should I clarify it?
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Maybe we can sniff the distros to get a sane message to give?
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I added more groups to the serial device, to make it work with other distributions.
No need to reboot so I added the sg command instead.