Good news/bad news on this one.
Your suggestion was more or less on the nose, Lawson, thank you. I also
had to set wvdial setuid as well.
The problem is that now when pppd starts up, the rest of the system
freezes. Any suggestions?
- Rob
At 01:45 PM 7/22/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>has pppd setuid permission?
>
>-rwsr-x--- 1 0 14 141364 Sep 30 1999 /usr/sbin/pppd*
>
>If not, the user that runs it must have permission to create a lock file
>in /var/lock
>
>Any failure to create the lock file might well be reported as "busy".
>
>On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Robert Ryan-Silva wrote:
>
> > I'm having a problem with my modem that seems like it should be a
>simple
> > matter but that I can't seem to figure out.
> >
> > When I initiate a dial-up session (using wvdial) as root everything is
> > fine, but of course I should not be doing that. But when I try to do
>so
> > from a user account I get the message "Cannot open /dev/modem: Device
>or
> > resource busy." The permissions on the modem are crwxrwxrwx, which
> > seems to me should be OK. What could be causing the problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
> >
> > - Rob
> >
> >
>Lawson
>
>Installation is performed in the reverse order of removal.
> - British Leyland shop manual
>
>
>
>
>
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