On Wednesday 17 October 2001 08:56, you wrote: > On 2001.10.17 00:28 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. > > Not necessarily, for example with SuSE you need to be in group uucp. > I would imagine other distros have similair protection from modem abuse. > > What distro are you using, iron? Probably someone on the list will know > what to do. > > cheers > > Lawrence > > > HTH > > > > David >
I am actually using SuSE, so thanx :-) -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
