[20615] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.1.14: kermit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z. Maze)
Tue Aug 20 18:32:35 2002
Message-Id: <200208202232.SAA20093@cutter-john.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:32:33 -0400
From: "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
System name: cutter-john.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.1.14
Display type:
Shell: /bin/sh (/afs/sipb/project/sipb/bin/zsh?)
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
Connect to a serial port using Kermit in the release.
What's wrong:
I can't start kermit and connect to a serial port:
{32} dmaze% kermit
C-Kermit 6.0.192, 6 Sep 96, for Linux
Copyright (C) 1985, 1996,
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Default file-transfer mode is TEXT
Type ? or HELP for help.
[/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/m/dmaze] C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyS1
/var/lock: Permission denied
Sorry, access to lock denied: /dev/ttyS1
This can be traced to a permissions problem:
{8} dmaze% ls -ld /var/lock
drwxrwxr-x 4 root 54 4096 Aug 20 04:02 /var/lock/
{9} dmaze% ls -l /usr/athena/bin/kermit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 660626 Jun 9 20:58 /usr/athena/bin/kermit*
What should have happened:
I should have been able to connect to the local serial port.
/var/lock shouldn't be owned by a nonexistent group; the
kermit binary should probably be setgid to the group owner
of the lock directory.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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