/dev/dsp - I don't want to fight with it ... (permissions)
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sun Sep 12 23:03:28 UTC 2004
I have a shell script that records from line in.
I call shell script from cron.
When I am logged in at console - it works.
PAM does its thing.
When I am not logged in - permission denied.
In other distributions, this is easily solved by putting the user into
the audio group, and /dev/dsp has 660 permissions.
I tried doing a similar thing with fedora.
Unfortunately Fedora thinks it is smarter than me, and resets the
permissions when I reboot.
How do I get Fedora to not revert a change I made for a reason?
I really don't want to have to be logged in - the point of the cron job
is to record at a specified time when I'm not home.
Thanks for suggestions.
btw - why doesn't Fedora use an audio group that a sysadmin can simply
add users to? That really makes a lot more sense than using PAM for this
- at least to me it does.
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