Re: access rights on /dev/ttyS1
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 06:15:41PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Ingo Hohmann <ingo_hohmann@public.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
<...>
> > one of the cron scripts seems to change access rights
> > on /dev/ttyS1 once in a while to
<...>
> pppd changes /dev/ttyS1 (if that is the modem device) to
Yes, it is.
> crw-r---- when it starts and resets it to 660 (crw-rw----) when it
> exits normally. If it exits abnormally (the user sends kill -9, for
> instance) the permissions are not reset.
Hmmm, I use wvdial and _always_ stop it with control-c,
it then says:
Caught signal #2! Attempting to exit gracefully...
--> Disconnecting at Wed May 26 18:29:55 1999
By the way, the problems started after the upgrade to Debian/Gnu Linux 2.1.
Ingo
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Ingo Hohmann <ingo.hohmann@gmx.de>
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