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. Nothing suspicious in /etc/cron.daily/: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 502 Aug 11 2000 calendar -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 277 Mar 15 2000 find -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51 Sep 12 1999 logrotate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 838 Jul 3 17:54 man-db -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 226 Dec 17 2001 mgetty -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86 Oct 21 2000 modutils -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 495 Aug 16 2000 netkit-inetd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1118 Feb 17 17:28 ntp-simple -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2736 Oct 1 2001 standard -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1197 Jan 3 2002 sysklogd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 766 Apr 27 00:05 tetex-bin I also checked cron.weekly and cron.monthly; there didn't seem to be any problems there, either, and yet still /dev/ttyS3 got set to crw-r-----. So that is at least twice in one day. So then I checked /etc/crontab, but aside from running .daily, .weekly, and .monthly, the only other job was to update xplanet, which I've been using for six months without a problem. There doesn't seem to be a suid.conf anywhere in /etc, and 'find / -name suid.conf' didn't turn up anything, either. I'm running Debian, so as far as I know there is no rouge program resetting my security settings. 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. Currently, I'm using wvdial to dialout, since whenever I use KPPP now, it connects, then instantly disconnects. /var/log/messages is terribly unhelpful--it just says that the modem hung up. Well, duh. KPPP exits with error code 16. Between this and the lousy KDE font handling (most of the TT and Type1 fonts are displayed as little boxes; fonts works just fine in GNOME), I'm getting very frustrated...Grr... :Peter