Permissions of /dev/tty* change

[John Gayman]

      I've been running Microport for over a year now. Currently I'm
running 2.3U. Occasionally I notice that the permissions of the 
/dev/tty files change.  This evening I had been using the modem with
"cu". An hour or so later I attempted to forward some News and kept
getting a "Cant access Device" error from uucp. I checked the
permissions in /dev/tty* and /dev/tty0 had been changed to 600
with an owner of "john" (me) and a group of "user" (my group). Now
normally all my tty's have a permission of 666. I notice this happening
occasionally. Sometimes its a tty going to a local terminal. AT
times it drives me crazy because I dont always check the permssions
first. :-)   Why does this happen ?  I mean, what normal process of
"cu" would result in the permissions being permanently changed on
the port that was in use ???


					John


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