On 16 Nov 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Bruce F. writes: > > However, I've found that pppd, for some reason, occasionally changes the > > permissions of the modem device to crw-r----,... > > It always does that, for security. If it exits normally it changes the > permissions back. It seems to forget to set the permissions back maybe about a third of the time. I don't believe that's because it's not exiting normally, though maybe I'm missing something. I assumed it was a bug. > > So I've switched to using pon and poff, and I've since had no problems. > > Just run "pppconfig" as route, and forget about wvdial, and you'll be > > happy. > > With pon and poff there is no need for the user to be in the dialout group. > He does have to be in the dip group, but you can set that in pppconfig. Oops, right, forgot to mention dip, thanks.---Bruce F.