Re: Things changing overnight
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:42:43PM -0500, David wrote:
>
> On investigation, I found that when pppd (I think it was) starts up,
> the permissions for the port are reduced, and are _supposed_ to be
> restored.. I decided that for some reason, pppd didn't restore the
> permissions after shutdown..
>
> One possibility for this.. I cannot recall the exact procedure, but I
> believe that pppd stores the original setting for the permissions..
> perhaps I tried to start pppd while I had a pppd session open.. the
> second pppd may have overwritten the saved permission with the
> current, which would have been the "reduced" permission and this would
> have been what the original pppd would have "restored" to.. My modem
> is ttyS1, so I just set the permissions to that of the other ttyS's
> and the problem hasn't happened again.
Sounds like a bug either way.
--
Jamin W. Collins
This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots
of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar
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