help with dosemu; getting very frustrated

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, I knew that. However, whenever I tried to install dosemu as root by running "dosemu", I got the following message.


Your are logged in as user root. The local configuration within
  this DOSEMU installation is not intended for secure operation.
  You need to run this as normal unprivileged user.


If I could in fact get dosemu to run as root, that would be grate. I'm using the latest version which is 1.0.2.0.
Greg


On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:57:11AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> Keep in mind that to emulate a serial port dosemu _needs_
> to run as root to perform the raw serial port i/o.
> Most dos applications access the serial port directly by reading and writing to the uart
> and it is easier to emulate this by talking to the real hardware as root
> than it is to figure out exactly what the dos ap is doing withi/o ports
> and routing that through the serial driver.
> In short, dos emu does not use the serial driver in the kernel to talk to the serial ports,
> it uses raw port i/o to the hardware. As a result serial port
> access is likely to require root privs.
> I don't use dos emu myself and th elast version I looked at was 0.97
> back in 1993 so corrections apreciated.
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:31:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > Wow! Fantastic hints! This helps with a number of issues.
> > My problem at the moment is that i have gotten the com ports to work, but only
> > as root. I'm not talking about for brltty and speakup, which transition over,
> > but for other uses. I am using debian, and my ttyX are set for root and dialout;
> > since I am a member of dialout this isn't a problem in linux. However, I have
> > tried changing the permissions for these ports with chmod to 666 or even 1777
> > (something I don't probably want on a regular basis) with no change to my serial
> > port access within dosemu.
> > Any help on this would be appreciated.
> > However, I can use the3 editor and wp5.1 and the floppy drive works, and i am
> > hoping to figure out why megadots isn't working; might possibley be a memory
> > problem or could be something more complex.
> > Thanks for that excellent post!!!
> > 
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