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Re: use the serialport from perl



On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 06:55:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> 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.

I use pppd 2.3.5 and the permissions look like:
0 crw-r--r--   1 root     dialout    4,  65 Mar 16 04:22 ttyS1
 
But i doesn't even work if i start the script as root!

-- 
michael legart, legart@distributed.dk. muuuh.


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