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Discovered something strange (to me) today.
I tried to play an audio file on my RH7 box, and discovered that I
couldn't ... permission denied. Hmm ... worked last time. Checked
perms on /dev/audio* and /dev/dsp*, and found that they were owned by
another user. Thinking it odd that any normal user would own anything
in /dev, I went fishing on my other RH7 box, which doesn't have any
/dev related problems. I found that many things in /dev, including
floppy, disk, and audio devices, apparently are owned by the first
logged-in user, unless that user is root. By logging off and on as
various users, the ownership of the aforementioned devices changed.
Hmm again, says I. As root, I changed the ownership of the audio and
dsp devices on the problem box to be dtalk, as they are on the working
box while dtalk is logged in. That took care of the problem. But
now, no other user except dtalk can access those devices.
Assuming this dynamic-ownership phenomenon is normal, I wonder what
caused it to stop working on the problem box?
- -d
- --
David Talkington
Prairienet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
217-244-1962
PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc
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