At 00:28 17/10/01 +0100, David Irvine wrote: >iron saTan wrote: > >>I have just bought an 56k external modem, and I can get the modem working >>prefectly in root but under a normal user I get device is busy... Does >>anyone have any help? > > >You may wish to ensure that the device nodes have the correct permissions >set up for the users you wish to be able to read and write to them. > >so IIRC. /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS<comm port number> should be accessible >by anybody you want to be able to do modemy stuff. > >you might want to man chmod to get an idea of what permissions you deem >appropriate.
also the /var/lock directory (where lock files for the device go) also, check any files in here with the modem port as part of their name e.g. LCK..ttyS1 Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
