DEVICE_GROUP Bug

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Hi,

Chuck Martin wrote:
> I've just upgraded from mgetty 1.1.12 to 1.1.14, and there seems to be
> a problem with the group ownership of the serial port.  In policy.h-dist,
> there is the following line:
> 
> #define DEVICE_GROUP	"modem"
> 
> When I've created my own policy.h file, I've always left that line as is,
> and then added myself to the modem group, and this has always worked fine.
> In 1.1.14, however, mgetty changes the group ownership of the serial device
> to "uucp" every time it starts up, effectively ignoring that line, and
> preventing me from using minicom to dial out.  I've gotten around this by
> adding myself to the uucp group, but I thought you might be interested
> in knowing about this.

Show the log file.  Most likely, you've got some stuff in "mgetty.config",
which is documented to override the defaults in policy.h.

Nothing has been changed in "mgetty.c" and "config.c" between 1.1.12 and 
1.1.14 that could explain a change in behaviour.

gert
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