On Sunday 19 June 2005 06:09 pm, Qv6 wrote: > Hello: > > Just looked under /dev and observed that the ownership of all the > entries are root:root with mostly 555 permissions. Is this the default > or do I have to change anything? Here's a snip from "ls -l /dev" > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jun 17 06:55 adsp -> sound/adsp > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 12 Jun 17 06:55 agpgart -> misc/agpgart > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Jun 17 06:55 audio -> sound/audio > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Jun 17 06:55 cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 cdroms > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 discs > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 17 06:55 dri > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jun 17 06:55 dsp -> sound/dsp > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jun 17 06:55 dvd -> /dev/hdc > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 floppy > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 usb > > Is this the reason why I cannot play dvd movies? >
They all say root:root because those are symlinks that point to a directory/file. So, the entry: lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Jun 17 06:55 cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 would point to: brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Jul 18 19:27 hdc Notice the permission is root:cdrom and not root:root. Hope this info helps clear things up. -- Chris Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 20:24:28 up 1 day, 11:56, 5 users, load average: 0.78, 0.90, 0.86 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
