Re: [Sheflug] Re: Minicom

[russ <rush [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 17:46, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Chris
>
> Thanks for the help..
>
> >		chgrp uucp /path/to/minicom
> >		chmod 2711 /path/to/minicom
> >		chgrp uucp /var/lock
> >		chmod 775 /var/lock
>
> After doing this minicom starts up as a user and then offers me the
> Ctrl A-Z option for help on special keys.  However, minicom now locks
> up solid.  Only way out of that is to close the Konsole window that
> minicom was running in and try with another one only to find that the
> same thing happens.
>
> Oh.. dear .. :(
>
> ls -ld /var/lock
> drwxrwxr-x  5 root uucp 152 2006-01-05 17:40 /var/lock
hi richard 
 I have the same problem here richard i use minicom to change modem to kiss 
mode after which it locks up i kill the pid then use root to carry on not 
frilly but it works ,But even then it will still lock as root ?

drwxrwxr-t  5 root uucp 152 2006-01-04 22:56 /var/lock

  Russ

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