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Re: ttyS3 permissions



On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:41:20PM +0000, n.youngman wrote:
> My modem is on ttyS3 and something in the Debian 2.2, appears to be
> setting the permissions to 0640. I have grepped through the startup
> scripts in /etc/rc2.d and the scripts in /etc/cron.* for the strings tty
> and chmod, but not found what's doing this. 
> 
> I have also been unable to find any clues with Google. Any pointers to
> teh cause of this problem will be gratefully received.

pppd when connected removes group write from the modem device, and
restores it when it closes the connection, though sometimes it
forgets.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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