I am having weird problems with serial devices on my system. The main symptom is that root is unable to use the serial devices. User blp (me) can use the serial devices--kermit, minicom, mserver all work when run as blp--but root cannot. The one exception to this is pppd, which only works when run as root, but this might be related to the permissions on /etc/ppp and /etc/chatscripts.
/dev/ttyS0 is set up as follows: crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jan 7 12:49 /dev/ttyS0 User blp is a member of group `dialout'. Root is not, but why should this matter? Anybody have advice? This is very frustrating because it means I have to run mserver as user blp, which doesn't make sense at all. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
