On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:39:54AM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > So last night, I was told to change the permissions of /dev/ttyS3 to > crw-rw----, and it was good. But This morning when I tried to connect, the > permissions had changed back to crw-r-----! I did not reboot or anything; the > computer was on all night. So I changed it back again. Then, I noticed that > my speed had dropped to 3.1k. (I've got a 56k modem, so this is roughly > cutting the speed in half.) I looked at the permissions and sure enough, they > had changed back to crw-r-----! What's going on? I checked what processes > were running, and the only one that seemed remotely possible was lisa, KDE's > LAN Information Server (I don't know why that's running, so I stopped it > removed it from /etc/init.d.) > :Peter Possibly you have a cron job that checks (and sets) perms on certain files. Do a 'man -k suid', look in /etc/cron.daily/, look for /etc/suid.conf, et cetera. -- trammell at el-swifto.com | 78BA 706C C5F9 9321 E7C4 933B D063 907B A88E 924B Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Mailing List http://www.mn-linux.org Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota irc.openprojects.net #tclug