On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 09:33:37 +0200
Juergen Braukmann
one thought is that you ran SuSEConfig by working on your system. SuSEConfig resets permissions as "granted" in /etc/permissions.[local|secure|...]. If you changed permissions by hand long time back, that might be the problem.
Hi Juergen, Thanks for that idea. I don't recall ever hand editing any permissions files, but after the permission denied problem with /dev/modem arose I did go back into YAST to check that my user name still had permission to access the modem. Maybe I caused some problems along the way.
(Or, I am completely wrong. Some memory tells me that (re)setting permissions is also called by cron-dayly). It's worth to be looked at anyway.
It had occurred to me that some cron process might be the culprit - because after I sent my first post yesterday the /dev/modem permission denied problem actually recurred. I checked, however, and cannot see anything in my cron setup that would cause it. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com