Re: [Sheflug] more newbie rubbish

["Pete Smith" <nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Kelly" <harvey [at] kelly.uklinux.net>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 2:02 PM
Subject: [Sheflug] more newbie rubbish


> Dear Pete,
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Pete Smith wrote:
>
> > > Sorry, I must be missing something here - I only have vague memories
of
> > > this thread.  SO have I & I started it :))
> > No I do not want to dial up as root, I f I did I would not have a
problem
> > cos I can, The thing is I an not allowed to dial up as user,"permision
> > denied". I want to change the permisions. But All permisions are ( as
far as
> > I can tell )set for me as user to do what I like but I can not get
wvdial to
> > let user in, so by changing rc config /permisions to "No" will I give
"user"
> > too much power that is my question. Good ere init,,,
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> GNU The choice of a patient generation
>
> Seriously, I've been having problems with permissions & WvDial too.  How
> I cured my "permissions problem" (I'm just showing off here
> really):  Download 1.40 from SuSE's "Update" (6.2) site, and then the
> patch to upgrade to 1.41! - from the 6.3 section.  Install.  Go into YaST,
> and WvDial's set-up.  Select Expert menu and change the default serial
> port to /dev/ttyS1 (if that's where your modem is).  Pray.  That worked
> for me, no not the praying.  If that doesn't help you, then I'm fresh out
> of ideas.  Nice being the two arch-newbies ain't it?

Ok I'll spend the weekend working that lot out.
Arch-Newbie Ehh. Think I'll take up Golf :)))
Pete

>
> Harvey
>
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