----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: Re: Lost permissions on /dev/modem?!
> Thanks David, > > I took a look at permissions and they are now world writeable for > /dev/modem. I'm not sure if this was the case when I first sent off message. > With them being world writeable I find that root can use wvdial successfully > but I can't. Earlier root got same error message about permission denied. > Yet I've always used wvdial as myself. I'm still getting "cannot open > /dev/modem: permission denied." Any other thoughts? > > Ken > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Debian" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:39 AM > Subject: Re: Lost permissions on /dev/modem?! > > > > Quoting Ken Januski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > Sorry to be sending this via Outlook but all of a sudden I can't use > wvdial > > > in Debian. It's been working successfully for me for about 4 months. > Then > > > this morning I typed in: wvdial, and got this response: > > > > > > "Cannot open /dev/modem : permission denied". > > > > This comes up regularly. For reasons best known to itself, wvdial > > needs group write permission for the modem. It usually gets this ok, > > but not if it killed the previous pppd session too quickly for pppd > > to restore the permissions (bug #85709). > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 > > Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA > > Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify > > official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or > plagiarised. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
