I'm pretty sure it has something to do with msec because i will 'chmod 777 /dev/ttyS1' and after sucessfully running wvdial as root the permissions of the device will are changed to 755. any idea how to work around this or at least account for the device permissions being changed?
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Franki wrote: > as I understand it, one of the current limitations of wvdial is that it > needs root when its used standalone... > > you need to look into sudo to get it working as a user. > > rgds > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Les Henderson > Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] msec question > > > I've been using wvdial on my LM8.1 box to connect to my ISP. I've not > been able to get a normal user account to be able to use wvdial. I keep > on getting the error message "Device or resource busy". I can use it fine > if I su to root first. I've tried setting the permissions of the device > to rwxrwxrwx, but the permissions always are changed to rwxr-xr-x when i > use wvdial. I am pretty sure that msec is changing the permissions of > the device when pppd is started. Any idea what changes I need to make to > get wvdial to work for a normal user? > > Les Henderson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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