PCI modem on sio4

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Nov 18 13:12:35 PST 2003


> I have exectly the same issue here.
> I have been trying to cu to my modem for a while now, with no success.
> 
> [root at moe ~]# cu -l /dev/cuaa4
> cu: open (/dev/cuaa4): Permission denied
> cu: /dev/cuaa4: Line in use
> 
> [root at moe ~]# ls -l /dev/cuaa*
> crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer   28, 128 Nov 16 16:31 /dev/cuaa0
> crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer   28, 129 Nov 16 16:31 /dev/cuaa1
> crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer   28, 130 Nov 16 16:31 /dev/cuaa2
> crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer   28, 131 Nov 16 16:31 /dev/cuaa3
> crw-r-----  1 root  wheel    28, 132 Nov 16 06:18 /dev/cuaa4
> 
> Any suggestions as to how I can talk to my modem?

Sorry, I accidentally deleted this mail.  Try doing:

# chmod 660 /dev/cuaa4
# chown uucp:dialer /dev/cuaa4

Note that cu is a setuid uucp:dialer binary, so it will not be able to
access the cuaa4 device with those permissions.

Joe

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