Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-09 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > I think the problem when using wvdial is simply that the latter is too > impatient. Wvdial claims that is sends SIGTERM to pppd, waits 2 seconds > and then sends SIGKILL. Please file a bug agains wvdial. Pppd quite often takes quite a while to shut down: for example, my ISP

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-09 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bob Hilliard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's > > permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem > > ppp changes the permissions to 640 on the device it is using,

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Bob Hilliard (on Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:52:22PM -0500): > ppp changes the permissions to 640 on the device it is using, and > restores them when it exits. If it exits abnormally (crash, kill -9, > etc) the permissions are not restored. I have suspected that it does > not always rest

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's > permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem ppp changes the permissions to 640 on the device it is using, and restores them when it exits. If it exits abnorma

Re: /dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Hugo van der Merwe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's > permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem... I > have now switched back to using ttyS1, but on laptops with only one > serial port this is not an option, so I'm s

/dev/ttyS0 permissions changing...

2001-02-07 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem... I have now switched back to using ttyS1, but on laptops with only one serial port this is not an option, so I'm still wondering what it is that does this. I also