[Gloucs]SuSE and the Internet

[Francis Barton]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 20:31, jim_ashford at lineone.net wrote:
> >Can you email us the results of the following commands:
> >
> >ls -l /dev/ttySL0
> >
> >groups
> >
> >This will tell us whether you have permissions set right on your machine
> >for you to dial out on the modem.

> Hi Francis
> Hear is the result I hope it makes more sence to you than it does to me
> 
> jima at linux:~> ls -l /dev/ttySL0
> crw-rw----  1 root uucp 212, 0 2004-04-06 14:27 /dev/ttySL0
> jima at linux:~> 

OK Jim, sorry it wasn't perhaps clear.

We need the output of the "groups" command as well (as you, user jima,
not as root! (just wanted to be clear on that!) Or type "groups jima" to
be on the safe side).

Simply type the one word "groups" and it will give you a list of the
groups you are a member of on your machine. If you are not in "uucp"
then you will not be able to read/write to the modem port. (This is what
the ls -l command told us).

If you are not in uucp (ie if uucp is not listed in output of "groups"),
then you need to do some tinkering as root (basically add jima to the
uucp line in the /etc/group file.) I think you will have to logout jima
and log in again for the new group membership to take effect.

Post the output of the groups command if you're stuck and we'll go from
there.
Otherwise, let us know if the step I have suggested makes any
difference. (It could still be a totally different problem ;-) )

Francis.