[CentOS] Problems with minicom on CentOS 4.4

Sun Jan 28 11:50:41 UTC 2007
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 19:21 +0800, Jarod Wang wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am a newcomer of this ML. And I installed CentOS a
> couple of hours ago on my i386 box because it is said
> that CentOS is a community based binary distro of
> RHEL. Before that I used to use RH9(it is quite out of
> date for my newly upgraded PC) as my host environment
> to work on embedded systems.
> 
> The installation procedure went smoothly and after
> that everything looked functional, however, I found
> that the minicom had a problem -
> When I started it in GNOME terminal window using
> “minicom -s” for the time, the program halted like
> this: 
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# minicom -s
> minicom: WARNING: configuration file not found, using
> defaults
> 
> And then I could not input any commands, I had to
> close the GNOME terminal window manually. I can
> remember it clearly that this command(minicom -s)
> should start the configuration procedure of minicom in
> RH9.
> 
> Then I tried to reinstall the minicom program by using
> “yum remove minicom” and then “yum install
> minicom”, but the problem remains.
> 
> Could some tell me how to solve this problem? Any
> hints would be highly appreciated.
> 
> P. S. the version of my minicom program is:
> [root at localhost ~]# minicom --version
> minicom version 2.00.0 (compiled Feb 21 2005)
> 

You need to do it as root ... not a normal user (as you are setting
system defaults)
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