Re: daily changes of my modem from crw-rw---- to crw-r-----
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:20:59AM -0800, Ed wrote:
> I'm using wvdial to to dialup.
^^^^^^
Here's your problem. I loved wvdial, very smart, until this same thing
happened to me. It's a bug.
> My modem device permissions seem to be getting put to crw-r----- and I
> cannot dialup as a regular user until I set them to crw-rw---- as root.
> I understand that these permissions get changed during a dialup session
> and changed back afterwards. Something else is going on that is
> occasionally preventing the change back or actually changing permissions
> to crw-r----.
Use pppconfig with "pon" to dial and "poff" to hangup. pppconfig is very
smart and automated, you'll be pleased.
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