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Re: [hylafax-users] /dev/ttyG* permissions and ownerships



Any way to alter the perms and ownerships say at run level 3?  I tried
writing a script and it no workie...

I am open to suggestions.

TIA,
-=jeff=-

On 8/15/05, Mark Bennett <Mark.Bennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Digi creates the devices on boot, so the perms will change each time.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff DeFord
> > Sent: Tuesday, 16 August 2005 8:58
> > To: Lee Howard
> > Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] /dev/ttyG* permissions and ownerships
> >
> >
> > Perms and ownserships revert back to root:root 644 upon
> > reboot (i.e. a simple chown/chmod will not remain after a
> > reboot). Hence my problem... The symlinks maintain ownerships
> > and permissions (b/c they are symlinks, not device files),
> > however the permissions are maintained on the target, not the symlink.
> >
> > Ideas?  I tried writing a script to run at startup to no avail...
> >
> >
> > On 8/15/05, Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > chown uucp.uucp /dev/ttyG0_47
> > >
> > > However, you're probably going to want to make some
> > symlinks.  See the
> > > explanation in the default prototype config file.
> > >
> > > Lee.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeff DeFord wrote:
> > >
> > > >ok - so i am an idiot...
> > > >how the heck do i make the /dev/ttyG* ownerships and permissions
> > > >changes persist?
> > > >
> > > >the default is:
> > > >   crw--w--w-    2  root     root  70,  47 Aug 15 15:18 ttyG0_47
> > > >
> > > >and for the Patton Digi DataFire RAS card to work, the
> > perms need to be:
> > > >   crw-rw-rw-    2  uucp     uucp  70,  47 Aug 15 15:18 ttyG0_47
> > > >
> > > >This is on a RH9 box, btw...
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >jeff
> > > >
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