On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 12:25 -0500, sv1cdn wrote: > Martin, thank you once more! > I made a backup of the configuration, understanding your suggestions. > > Weird thing is that when I changed the group to dialup, made a reboot > and then ls -la ttyS* at /dev I can see all ttyS* in group root. > That's expected - root can see everything.. As a general point, if you manually change anything in /etc its a good idea to back it up the same way. Obvious candidates are the configuration files for services like Samba, Postfix, Spamassassin and ntpd. Also anything you change in /etc/rc.d/init.d, /etc/profile.d, /etc/hosts or /etc/cron.* The big difference from Windows is that you can make these changes easily with a text editor instead of having to make non-obvious changes to a registry. You also get to keep the files so you can copy them to another computer or put them back after a doing a clean install of a later Linux distro. This isn't stuff you'd want to do immediately, but as you get to know Linux you may find there are things you want to do with it, such as running your own mail server, an internal web site or Samba (which makes Linux become a Windows file and print server). All these are useful things to do if you have several people using computers on your home network. > Wine still works fine, so maybe I will just let it be... > Good news. Martin
