Re: ttyS3 permissions
> Subject: Re: ttyS3 permissions
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:47:30 -0900
> From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> 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.
Ouch, that's nasty. Is there a workaround other than adding something to
the crontab to fix it?
Neil Youngman.
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