Long long time ago, I was running cu (a dial out program) and uucp on a serial line on Solaris. While the device was in use by one of these programs the permissions were set to limit access by a single user. After disconnecting, it would set it back. I wonder if something like this is happening here. Try fuser on the port and see if anyone has it open? Peter Clark wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 July 2002 12:38, Peter Clark wrote: > Replying to myself here: > > I'm running Debian, so as far as I know there is no rouge program > > resetting my security settings. > I found the rouge program, or at least narrowed it down to two: either kppp > or ppp itself. I ran 'ls /dev/ttyS3' and saw that everything was good, > connected using kppp, and suddenly it's been reset to crw-r-----. > > > Plus, I still don't know why the modem is stuck at 3.1k. When I first > > dial-up, it's averaging between 5k and 6k, just like a 56k modem should, > > but then after a while it goes down to 3.1k. I've tried two ISPs and I get > > the same behavior, so it's a problem at my end. > The answers to both of these problems still elude me... > :Peter > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis