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[novo@xxxxxxxx (Alvaro A. Novo)]

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I use wvdial as my PPP dialer. I generally can use it as regular user without
> any trouble. However, from time to time, and without apparent reason, the system complains saying
> 
> ramon@ligarto:~ > wvdial
> --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.40
> --> Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied
> 
> And I am getting tired of having to login as root, and do a chmod to restore
> the permissions to w for members of the group (yeah, sure, its just a
> one-liner, but it is annoying anyway). Why is this happening and how can I
> prevent it? [Note: I am using SuSE 6.3].

Here's my best guess... look into rc.config (through YaST, system
administrator menu), it's probably changing your permissions file everytime you
run SuSEconfig.

Alvaro Novo
SuSE 6.3
Kernel 2.2.13
KDE 1.1.2

 > 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ramon
> 
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