Re: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 11:29:31AM -0500, Richard Hall wrote: > Do I need to log out and log back in to get the change to take? Somehow the setgroups call must be executed and only the superuser is allowed to do this, so this needs to be done by a program running as root, i.e. login or a suid prog

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread Richard Hall
In the interest of trying to understand how ownership and permissions work, let me ask you a question. As root, I ran 'adduser cdrom' since cdrom is the group that owns my CD drive. This should allow me to remove the harmless world rw permission from /dev/cdrom. Looking in /etc/group, I can see

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > >On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > >> It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping > >> /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom > >OK, so all I had to do was m

Re: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: [snip] > > It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping > > /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you are using shadow passwords just adding > a user to /etc/group manually is not

Re: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:16 +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > > > > On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > > > > I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. > > > > I > > > > really ha

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping > /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom OK, so all I had to do was make /dev/hdc world-readable Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge To

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > Here is my /dev/audio > > prompt$ ll /dev/audio > crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 20 1998 /dev/audio > > run 'groups' as the user. If audio appears then the above should work, it > does > on every one of my machines. > > If audio is not liste

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > > > I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I > > > really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to > > > make /dev/au

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-08 Thread Richard Hall
I set /dev/audio back to the way it originally was, (660, group audio). I am already in group audio. It seems to be working. I guess I didn't do the log out/log back in step before. I'm not sure whether Netscape can use sound or not. Plug-ins which use sound are working, but when I try to open

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-08 Thread Shaleh
Here is my /dev/audio prompt$ ll /dev/audio crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 20 1998 /dev/audio run 'groups' as the user. If audio appears then the above should work, it does on every one of my machines. If audio is not listed as one of your groups, as root run 'vigr' and add your

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-08 Thread Richard Hall
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > > I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I > > really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to > > make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I > really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to > make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like > workman without making it world writable an

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-08 Thread Richard Hall
I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like workman without making it world writable and without having to do group calisthenics.

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > I just installed workman so that I can listen to tunes, but it ain't > working. Sound works, ie, I can do 'cat file.au > /dev/audio' and hear > sound. Also, workman thinks that it is playing the CD. I can watch the > time elapse, and it knows how many tracks a

workman and sound

1999-02-08 Thread Richard Hall
I just installed workman so that I can listen to tunes, but it ain't working. Sound works, ie, I can do 'cat file.au > /dev/audio' and hear sound. Also, workman thinks that it is playing the CD. I can watch the time elapse, and it knows how many tracks are on the disk. The only problem is that