Re: [LI] kppp and kvoice

["L.V.Gandhi" <lvgandhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Syed Khader Vali wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 08:58:10PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > As there was no response, I am repeating this once again.
> > I had configured and working with kppp. ttyS1 was configured as owner
> > root and group as tty and there was no problem with kppp running. after
> > installing kvoice, owner and group of ttyS1 was changed automatically as
> > uucp. Then i could not access ttyS1 with kppp. I changed it to original
> > config. But after sometime it was being automatically changed to uucp.
> > Though i have circumvented by adding user to uucp group, why such a
> > change occurred.
> Hi there,
> On muh Debian systim, the situation is as follows
> 
> ls -l /dev/ttyS1                                        ~
> crw-r-----   1 root     dialout    4,  65 Oct 18 20:03 /dev/ttyS1
> 
> ls -l /dev/modem                                        ~
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     uucp           10 Sep  3 01:18 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS1
> 
> Actually even in one of the PCQ mags I remember that /dev/modem was
> changed the owner to uucp
> the command
> 
> chgrp uucp /dev/modem
> 
> So I guess modem should be in the group uucp

It does not work only if modem is in uucp. ttySx also should be in uucp
group.

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