My permissions are: [root at mythbox lirc]# ls -l /dev/lir* srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-04-29 22:37 /dev/lircd= prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-04-29 22:37 /dev/lircm| [root at mythbox lirc]# ls -l total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 61, 0 2008-04-29 22:37 0