Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[Michael.Salmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Salmon)]

+----- On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 04:37:34 PDT, Edward Craig writes:
| Well, actually /dev/ttyS1 on my machine.
| Every now and then the permissions get changed on dev/modem, and
| userid's other than root can't access it. So I chmod it with root. Why
| doesn't this stick? (SuSE 6.1 here). It usually gets me after using
| wvdial, logging off, and logging in to use minicom.
| I'm sure this was covered once upon a time here.

It may be that the permissions that you want aren't the same as in you 
permissions file and thus when SuSEconfig runs it changes the 
permissions back to the defaults. You can change the behavior in 
rc.config.

/Michael


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