File README.SuSE of Package jpilot
README.SuSE for jpilot ====================== Don't forget to read the jpilot docs in /usr/share/doc/packages/jpilot (also plink docs may be very usefull) add your login name (here 'yourlogin') to the uucp-Group to have right permissions for the serial devices. You may do it with YaST: Security and Users -> Edit and create groups After this: logout, login again (as user 'yourlogin') and see the output of the 'groups' command - you may see the uucp group there. It is also usefull to create a link /dev/pilot to the really serial device, your palm's docking station is connected to, i.e.: ln -s ttyS0 /dev/pilot Alternatively you may set the PILOTPORT environment variable (for bash) i.e.: export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyS1 or add it to your ~/.bashrc.