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- From: dfilip@colornet.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Com port troubles..very confusing..
- Summary: Check the protections on your com port
- Keywords: com uucico
- Message-ID: <44@colornet.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:39:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.000411.4441@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Organization: ColorNet Information Systems
- Lines: 36
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- >I'm getting very frustrated with my system. :-) Suddenly, without
- >any apparent reason, my uucico cannot dial out anymore. I have
- >cranked up the debug level and I can only get it to say "line problem".
- >I remembered in the past that I got this error when all of the baud
- >rates in the various config files didn't agree. However, this should
- >not be the case as I haven't changed anything and it worked yesterday!
-
- Check the protections and ownership on the com port; the owner/group should
- be bin and the protection should be 666 (crw-rw-rw-). If not :
-
- chmog 666 bin bin /dev/com??? (??? = whatever port you are using)
-
- When I first got Coherent up and running I ran into this VERY annoying
- problem, where everything works fine and then everything breaks. If you
- manually enable the port the owner and group will change to root and the
- protection will change to 700 (crwx------); future uucico attempts will
- generate a "line problem" error.
-
- Also, you will get this error if another process (virtual console ?) has
- the line open (i.e., via kermit).
-
- It would really be nice if the error was something like "protection error",
- "device already in use", or "baud rate conflict" rather than just always
- reporting "line problem".
-
- Regards,
-
- Dave.
-
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