[ale] cu not working on console?

[Nomad the Wanderer]

Ok,
  I'm confused.  On my laptop I can do a cu -l /dev/ttyS0 and get the
console of another machine.  I did a fresh install of RedHat5.1 on another
machine and now I'm getting this:

[haro at eb-console haro]$ cu -l /dev/ttyS0
cu: open (/dev/ttyS0): Permission denied
cu: /dev/ttyS0: Line in use


No-one else is on the machine or even has access at this point.  I did
a basic install as I don't want alot of services running on this machine.
Does anyone have any clue?  I can't find any reference to this in the man
pages.

Robert
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