Serial communications

[BrianRodgers]

CentOS 7.6.1810

I have 4 programs that communicate via RS232 serial to remote devices. The programs run fine from the console and establish good serial comms.
I need to auto start these programs as this is an embedded controller. I added each program as a service to systemd.

After boot, each process is running, however there are no comms.
Each program is attached to the correct port: ttyS4 to ttyS7 seen from ls -l /proc/PID/fd.

Checking stty -F /dev/ttyS4 to 7 indicates the ports are set to 115200 baud.

The programs set the speeds to 19200, 38400, 9600 & 9600 on start up. I can kill each process and restart from the console the baud rates are set correctly and comms are good.

How do I get the serial ports to operate without logging on?

Thanks

[igorek24]

Which user are you running systemd service under?
You need to add that user to ether dialout or tty group (check the owner of those ports).

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gpasswd -a ServiceUser dialout 

Where ServiceUser is the user that you are running your service as.

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[Service]
User=ServiceUser
Group=ServiceUser
Type=simple
...