[plug] modem lock file

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Stephen Smart wrote:

> >   Would you believe a few months?  OK, two years of intense study.

That was just a dumb 'Maxwell Smart' reference.
 
> take a long time
> to learn the basics let alone anything else. BUT I am having fun.

You'll go far! 

> using red hat 6 going to KDE menus, internet, KPPP
> I click on setup then device and select /dev/ttys1 which works in root
> if the use lock file is ticked when I go to modem and query it I get the
> message "sorry, cant create modem lock file" if i untick it I get "sorry,
> cant open modem"

OK, I think this is about groups. try adding yourself to the 'uucp' group,
(edit /etc/groups, or use kde),
log out and back in, assuming that the /var/lock directory looks like:

drwxrwxr-x   5 root     uucp         1024 Oct 27 04:02 /var/lock/

i.e. the uucp group has write access.
Also check the permissions on /dev/modem, or whatever it points to
e.g. /dev/ttyS1

> Tried that, also went to etc/ppp/options and removed the word lock

Maybe pppd is running with 'lock' as a command line argument.

> When I read about the evil's of drinking
> I gave up reading

W.C.Fields ?


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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