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) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070128/1b052e0c/attachment-0005.sig>