john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (02/15/88)
I've been running Microport for over a year now. Currently I'm running 2.3U. Occasionally I notice that the permissions of the /dev/tty files change. This evening I had been using the modem with "cu". An hour or so later I attempted to forward some News and kept getting a "Cant access Device" error from uucp. I checked the permissions in /dev/tty* and /dev/tty0 had been changed to 600 with an owner of "john" (me) and a group of "user" (my group). Now normally all my tty's have a permission of 666. I notice this happening occasionally. Sometimes its a tty going to a local terminal. AT times it drives me crazy because I dont always check the permssions first. :-) Why does this happen ? I mean, what normal process of "cu" would result in the permissions being permanently changed on the port that was in use ??? John -- John Gayman, WA3WBU | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john 1869 Valley Rd. | ARPA: wa3wbu!john@uunet.UU.NET Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P