[BTM] Cheesy fix for non-syncing Tungsten/T's!

[Richard McKay]

Thanks Steve,

Sorry everyone for describing the long, hard path...

I'm not very familiar with sudo and certainly wasn't aware that you could
execute root commands without activating the superuser (although it makes
sense now). Learn something new every day...of course you could still do it
the way I described but it would be foolish compared to Steve's elegant
method.

Working towards a permanent and not so brutal solution for the synching
problem is it possible that because it is trying to communicate with two
ports at one time that the differences and therefore the problem lies in the
settings in the System preferences application, Bluetooth, serial ports tab
settings? The levy people (any others?) seem to have the setup working
okay...can someone with functioning BT and TT post the settings from this
area so that the others can compare to see if this would help? i.e. if one
or more of the following settings there are at fault...authorization,
direction, name, device and service? Would this help at all???

Cheers,

Richard
--

Stephen Jonke wrote the following:

> Actually, not only isn't it necessary to activate the root account, but
> activating root isn't recommended. Any admin user account can use the
> "sudo" command to get root privileges temporarily. So, if you aren't
> using an admin account, here's what you'd need to type (stuff in angle
> brackets you need to replace with the appropriate thing):
> 
>   su <some admin user>         [enter *their* password to su to them]
>   sudo kill <blued's PID>      [enter the the admin user's password,
> not root's!]