As one poster has already stated, it is suppose to do that. /dev is more or less a virtual directory tree. I think i understan what your problem is, but I suggest you start a new thread and describe the problem thoroughly. Currently, it sounds like hotplugd isn't setting current permissions. <div>On 12/22/05, mal <<a href="mailto:malcolm@interele.demon.co.uk">malcolm@interele.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have a box with a sata hd and ide dvd everything works fine except xine and mplayer if I go to /dev and do chmod 777 hda and ln -s hda dvd both xine and mplayer work ok - if I then reboot the box when it comes back up /dev/dvd is gone and /dev/hda is back at 660 what the heck is going on ? thanks mal -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.