[wellylug] modem and power cuts

[David Murray]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 08:34, jim wrote:
> Hi thanks for the ideas.
> 
> I'm still not there but I did discover that /dev/ttyS2 was the only dev 
> that didn't have write permissions for group and other. I restored it 
> for group - chmod g+w /dev/ttyS2  . Yes I had to get a book out to do 
> that ;-)
> 
> No, there is no /dev/modem on this system. I did check that kppp hadn't 
> had any of it's configs changed and there weren't any.
> 
> I don't understand lock files, so I was glad to see that I don't have 
> the file Tony suggested.
> 
> I can't imagine how the modem could be damaged such that none of the 
> users can use it but root can.
> 
> BTW When I start kppp from a terminal, both as a user and root, I get a 
> line saying "couldn't find interface ppp0: no such device". This is 
> presumably an irrelevance designed to confuse me, very easy to do anyway..
> 
> So any more words of wisdom will be appreciated.

It may be worth checking access permissions/ownership on various config
files, or on various files in the /var directory.

I don't use kppp but it has been my experience that a hard crash can
leave various files in /var which can prevent some things from working
as they should.

May be wrong, but you never know.


Regards,

David



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