> Subject: Re: ttyS3 permissions > Date: 28 Jan 2001 10:29:46 -0600 > From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Neil Youngman writes: > > Ouch, that's nasty. Is there a workaround other than adding something to > > the crontab to fix it? > > In my experience the only time pppd fails to restore the serial port > permissions these days is when it gets a 'kill -9' or is otherwise > prevented from cleaning up.
I've never used kill -9 on it. I use wvdial and exit with ^C. For the time being I've added a script /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/99chmod, which will restore the permissions to 0666. I'll see if that stops it recurring. Neil
