AutoPPP login.config : Permission denied

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Hi,

Peter McDonald wrote:
> I am running mgetty from /etc/inittab. The relevant line is:

Ok.

> d1:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -n 1 -m '"" AT&FM0S0=0 OK' ttyS1

Looks good.

> I experimented with runlevels... 2345 seemed to be the only one to auto-
> answer the phone, without generating 'd1 spawning too fast' errors.

Hmmm. The numbers definitely have nothing to do with the error message --
but if you specify numbers that are different than your current runlevel,
init just won't start mgetty, so it won't answer the phone. Check the
"man init" man page.

> If I attack the problem from the other direction, by opening up
> permissions
> of login.config, the logfile error becomes: 
> 
> login: '/usr/local/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config' must be root/0600:

Sure, as for security reasons, the file must not be world readable.

Is, by chance, your /usr/local filesystem mounted over NFS? If yes,
make sure that root has "root privileges" (or put the login.config
on a local hard disk), because on an NFS file system, root has no
privileges, and this is about the only thing I can imagine why opening
the file would fail...



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