cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:48:32 PDT 2004


Quoth listmail at rotundus.com:
> Well, I'm feeling a little bit dumb now as the source of the problem was
> somewhere I probably should have looked at earlier.
> 
> What turned out to be the problem was that ownership of /dev/ttyS0 had
> somehow been transferred to root from uucp, and thus cu (running setuid
> uucp) was unable to access the serial port.

Doh!

Kurt
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