> Subject: Re: ttyS3 permissions > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:47:30 -0900 > From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > > 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.
