* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and > /etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used "chmod a+rw /var/lock". That > worked. The output of "ls -dl lock" is now > drwxrw-rw- 2 root root" etc. > I relogged in. > Ran dosemu as me wit the debugging option. > Still no com ports; still because you must be suid root. > Having read some other posts on this through google, I really think the > problem > is in the dosemu coding and not in my lock permissions now, because they are > now > ok.
I wouldn't be so sure -- you are missing the execute bits. Dima -- "Mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of entities." -- corollary to Occam's Razor
