In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael J. Maravillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Johann Spies wrote: > >>When I tried "fax send -m foo" as user, I received the following error >>message. >> >>efax: removed stale lock /var/lock/LCK..ttyS3 from pid 373 >>efax: Error: tty device open >>/dev/ttyS3:Permission denied >>efax: done, returning 2 >> >>I then (as su) typed >> >> chmod u+rw /dev/ttyS3 >> >>but it did not help. > >How about "chmod ugo+rw /dev/ttyS3"
If you are the only user on your system, then you can do that. Otherwise, you've just allowed everybody to use the modem and dial to those nice Australian BBS'es :) The correct thing to do, is to make /dev/ttyS3 owned by root:dialout, mode 0660 (crw-rw---). Then add any user that must have access to a dialout device to the group "dialout" (edit /etc/group with "vigr"). If you also happen to run mgetty on the serial port, edit /etc/mgetty.config and make sure mgetty resets the port modes to root:dialout mode 0660 Mike. -- | Miquel van | "I need more space" "Well, why not move to Texas" | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "No, on my account, stupid." "Stupid? Uh-oh.." | | PGP fingerprint: FE 66 52 4F CD 59 A5 36 7F 39 8B 20 F1 D6 74 02 | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .