nishtya
08-12-2004, 12:32 AM
I felt this deserved it's own thread. The user=no modem problem is over and the winner was ecogeek. His suggestion maybe was overkill. But it has worked in a toned down form. Anybody want to look at what I did here:
First tonight I tried markus' suggestion of chgrp dip /etc/resolv.conf. Nada. Then I looked at resolv.conf and it was a link with no permissions. AHA. It linked to etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf so I thought I would outsmart it and did chgrp dip /etc/dhcp/resolv.conf. No joy.
Next on to eco's suggestion. It was his email I was reading when I let loose the great coffee flood of 2004 on my computer kingdom: chmod 777 /dev/ttyS0 I decided to go rooting around the ol' dev folder before letting loose with this nugget. I found something odd and hoping someone here can explain. ttyS0, 1 and 2 - the permissions were zip, forbidden across the board. While ttyS3-6 were read&write for root and group (dialout). None executable. So instead of shooting for the 777 I just changed ttyS0 to root & group read & write and it worked. Ok, now what have I let loose? If kano had these things forbidden he must have had a reason, the modified date on these character device files were much more recent than the other ones. Dare I ask him? Or is this pretty much OK what I have done? I do intend to do a fresh install. I have been ch modding all over the place and I am sure I have done other nasty things and probably shouldn't been on here on this until I make a new one all nice and secure. But not forbidden :)
Oh the keyboard is looking pretty good, drying in the hottest room in the apt and doesn't smell of coffee, sour milk or rust yet. The mouse is bigger trouble. I am sure it is fine but getting the scroll wheel assembly back together is proving difficult. Anyone have a link on them to a assembly diagram of a logitech optical wheel mouse
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First tonight I tried markus' suggestion of chgrp dip /etc/resolv.conf. Nada. Then I looked at resolv.conf and it was a link with no permissions. AHA. It linked to etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf so I thought I would outsmart it and did chgrp dip /etc/dhcp/resolv.conf. No joy.
Next on to eco's suggestion. It was his email I was reading when I let loose the great coffee flood of 2004 on my computer kingdom: chmod 777 /dev/ttyS0 I decided to go rooting around the ol' dev folder before letting loose with this nugget. I found something odd and hoping someone here can explain. ttyS0, 1 and 2 - the permissions were zip, forbidden across the board. While ttyS3-6 were read&write for root and group (dialout). None executable. So instead of shooting for the 777 I just changed ttyS0 to root & group read & write and it worked. Ok, now what have I let loose? If kano had these things forbidden he must have had a reason, the modified date on these character device files were much more recent than the other ones. Dare I ask him? Or is this pretty much OK what I have done? I do intend to do a fresh install. I have been ch modding all over the place and I am sure I have done other nasty things and probably shouldn't been on here on this until I make a new one all nice and secure. But not forbidden :)
Oh the keyboard is looking pretty good, drying in the hottest room in the apt and doesn't smell of coffee, sour milk or rust yet. The mouse is bigger trouble. I am sure it is fine but getting the scroll wheel assembly back together is proving difficult. Anyone have a link on them to a assembly diagram of a logitech optical wheel mouse
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