He's not using 6.1, tho :)
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Luke C Gavel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a common problem even with 6.l. I think it may have to
> do with the SETUID bit. But, I don't understand those types of
> permissions too well. Could someone give an elaborate overview
> on the
>
> '?' in chmod ?nnn /dev/dsp /dev/mixer
>
> For example what would chmod 7600 /dev/dsp do? What do they mean
> by the 'sticky bit (1)', 'SETGID(2)', 'SETUID(4)', and etc.
> What happens when you add the permissions up? Does the 'sticky
> bit' involve toffee or molasses?
>
> hehehe,
> L.G.
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Ivey wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here's an odd problem I had today. I have a computer (RH6.2) for playing
> > mp3's, and I had previously run 'chmod 666' for both /dev/dsp and
> > /dev/mixer so my user account could play music. It has been fine but
> > today the permissions had gotten changed and I had to do it again. It
> > just ran cron.weekly so I'm suspicious of that but see nothing that would
> > have done it (it just runs makewhatis). Any idea what would have done
> > this?
> >
> > -Mark-
> >
> >
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