On Wednesday 10 July 2002 10:23, John Joseph Trammell wrote: > 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. If you run Mandrake there is a program called "msec" that runs every night checking and then resetting the permissions on your system based on your "security level". Check for that too:) Nick -- Nick Davis Associate Systems Administrator ndavis at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services