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Re: use the serialport from perl



michael legart writes:
> If i connect to the Internet for a couple of minutes with pppd,
> disconnects again and start my script, it just hangs at that line!  I can
> see it grabs the modem, but i cannot communicate with it - and as i said,
> the script just hangs. :(

> Any ideas?

What version of pppd do you have?  pppd changes the permissions on the
modem port for security reasons.  It didn't used to restore them properly,
but as far as I know 2.3.5 does.
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