FreeBSD-7.0 Release and Camera? Almost got it figured out

Ryan Coleman ryan.coleman at cwis.biz
Sat Jun 28 01:02:37 UTC 2008


chip wrote:
> Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> chip wrote:
>>> Heheh, got that working, had to add sudo to the beginning of the 
>>> command. Now the problem has to do with permissions. The pics are 
>>> downloaded with the owner being root, so I have to view the pics as 
>>> root. Whats the workaround?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> chip wrote:
>>>> A little more info -
>>>> I now have gphoto2 recognizing and downloading my images, but only 
>>>> in a terminal window. I am using XFCE and want to create a shortcut 
>>>> on the toolbar or the desktop that will open a terminal window and 
>>>> run the command. I have a shortcut set up but it just opens a 
>>>> terminal window and quickly closes, I don't know what's wrong, but 
>>>> it's not downloading the images.
>>>> Any suggestions on how to get a shortcut to a terminal window app 
>>>> to work on XFCE?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> chip wrote:
>>>>> Anyone know how to get FBSD 7-R to recognize my Canon S3 IS and 
>>>>> download pics from it?
>> First off, please bottom respond. Easier to follow the thread.
>>
>> Secondly, chown would do the job. sudo chown youruser:yourgroup * (or 
>> file*)
>>
>> -- 
>> Ryan
>>
>>
> So that is after loading the pics. Is there anything I can do 
> beforehand so the whole process can be done under my normal user login?
RTFM: 
http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-serial.html#ex-serial-anybody-access

Really, man... RTFM :)


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