Permissions problem

[Marty R. <my...@ra...>]

I'm trying to setup lirc so that it can output through a serial transmitter
at the same time that it handles input via my Hauppauge PVR-350.

The instructions on http://www.lircsetup.com/ seem pretty straight forward
but I am getting the following errors:

irsend: could not connect to socket
irsend: Connection refused

Now I gather that this has something to do with the permissions on
/dev/lircd1?

[root@localhost bin]# ll /dev/lirc*
crw-------  1 root root 61, 0 Nov 17 13:40 /dev/lirc
crw-------  1 root root 61, 0 Nov 17 13:40 /dev/lirc0
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Nov 17 13:40 /dev/lircd
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root     0 Nov 17 13:40 /dev/lircd1

This is kind of weird though since the srw-rw-rw suggests to me that I have
read and write permission. (I'm no linux guru mind you so please call me an
idiot if I so deserve it).

Any idea of how I track this one down?


Regards
Marty