Drew Ferguson <ilug at moil.demon.co.uk> writes:
> On Thursday 19 December 2002 09:12, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> > Gavin McCullagh <ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie> writes:
> > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> > > > [brendan at ballingoola brendan]$ wvdial
> > > > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41
> > > > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Device or resource busy
>> Maybe there is a lock file in /var/lock blocking the port/modem
Bingo! No lock file, but no write permission. Add myself to uucp
group, perhaps.
But that leaves me with the problem of write permisision to
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets (group daemon).
I may have screwed up some groups (tty for /dev/ttyS1, uucp for
/var/lock/, daemon for /etc/ppp/pap-secrets), but surely it should
be simpler than this? setuid root? How do that?
Brendan
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