On 19 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Anthony writes: > > I have no idea how all this happened, nor do I understand why /dev/ttyS0 > > had originally got incorrect permissions while /dev/ttyS1, etc, were > > correct. > > Pppd once had a bug that caused it to fail to restore the permissions on > the serial port. I thought it was fixed long ago, though. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI >
That would certainly explain it. I shall look out for it in future. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Debian GNU/Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ What the world will be like a century hence, was never so impossible to foresee. Like a gigantic snowball, larger and larger, faster and faster, science hurtles with us all into the unknown. [F.L. Lucas - 1955]