Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:47:40 -0600, Dale wrote: OK. Here's my update. I changed the config file, the 50-udev.rules file, back to the way it was when it was updated. The next time you update udev, your changes will be overwritten. Changes should go in 10-local.rules. I then added myself to

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-07 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:47:40 -0600, Dale wrote: OK. Here's my update. I changed the config file, the 50-udev.rules file, back to the way it was when it was updated. The next time you update udev, your changes will be overwritten. Changes should go in

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:06:23 -0600, Dale wrote: The next time you update udev, your changes will be overwritten. Changes should go in 10-local.rules. Thanks. I forgot about that little detail. I better find a how to somewhere. http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php If your serial

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-07 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:31:49 Neil Bothwick wrote: The only module I have is nvidia.  I build everything into my kernel that I can.  I was hoping there was a way to sort of restart or reload udev but I couldn't find one and nobody posted one either.  I guess there is now two reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-07 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:06:23 -0600, Dale wrote: The next time you update udev, your changes will be overwritten. Changes should go in 10-local.rules. Thanks. I forgot about that little detail. I better find a how to somewhere.

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I also went diggin in the groups file, there is a dialout group in there that *should* address this. I mentioned in a early reply that this was likely a security thing. Your link seems to show that it is that. What I can't figure out is why no one warned us? I only use Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: OK. Here's my update. I changed the config file, the 50-udev.rules file, back to the way it was when it was updated. I then added myself to the uucp group and rebooted. Well, my UPS didn't like that one bit. So I added nut to the uucp group too. Then I rebooted again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-04 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:30:23 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dale wrote: If you can, check to see if udev was upgraded and there was a notice that there are group changes. I would think udev would be what was changed. I'm curious to see your reply though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-04 Thread Dale
Dan Farrell wrote: On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:30:23 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, I wonder why that was changed? I did a google search for uucp and group and it was interesting. It seems this is the norm now. When I added fax to the search, it seems that will solve my problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:18:41PM -0600, Dan Farrell wrote FWIW, it was kind of a PITA to set up dialup in a secure way for multiple users to use with traditional UNIX permissioning. I'm the only person on my machine, but things get complicated because the dialup is emergency backup for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dale wrote: Here is my question. What are the permissions supposed to be? I have it set to root:users right now. It was set to root:uucp which was not working. If someone has a modem and uses dial-up, can you reply with the output of ls -al /dev/ttyS* if you would. If anybody else knows

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Dale
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dale wrote: Here is my question. What are the permissions supposed to be? I have it set to root:users right now. It was set to root:uucp which was not working. If someone has a modem and uses dial-up, can you reply with the output of ls -al /dev/ttyS* if you would.

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:08:59PM -0600, Dale wrote Here is my question. What are the permissions supposed to be? I have it set to root:users right now. It was set to root:uucp which was not working. Did you try making your user a member of the uucp and dip groups? -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:08:59PM -0600, Dale wrote Here is my question. What are the permissions supposed to be? I have it set to root:users right now. It was set to root:uucp which was not working. Did you try making your user a member of the uucp and dip

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Mick
On Saturday 03 March 2007 23:37, Dale wrote: I suspect something changed with the grouping and I just didn't know it. It was likely one of those messages in a compile that went by and I didn't see it. It may be for the better, mor secure or something, but I just missed it. Now that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2007 23:37, Dale wrote: I suspect something changed with the grouping and I just didn't know it. It was likely one of those messages in a compile that went by and I didn't see it. It may be for the better, mor secure or something, but I just missed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hmm, this is what I am getting on a x86 build. # ls -al /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 67 Mar 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Dale
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hmm, this is what I am getting on a x86 build. # ls -al /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dale wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hmm, this is what I am getting on a x86 build. # ls -al /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar 3 22:09 /dev/ttyS2

Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-03 Thread Dale
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dale wrote: If you can, check to see if udev was upgraded and there was a notice that there are group changes. I would think udev would be what was changed. I'm curious to see your reply though. Ok - here is the state after the emerge (recall group *was* tty): $ ls

[gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

2007-03-02 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I had a power failure this morning. I lost my uptime too. :-( Anyway, I had to shutdown my rig. After the lights came back on I started having trouble with internet access. I could connect fine with Kppp. Thing is, it wouldn't let hardly any data transfer. I could get Kopete to