I know I have seen this posted before, so I went back to the archive to see if I could find what the answer was, but despite being posted twice, nobody posted an answer. So I'll re-ask and hope somebody who knows whats up can answer... On reboot, many files in the /dev heirarchy change permissions back to 600, including /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. They can be changed back, but it is annoying to do this. I suppose maybe I could try adding something to reset this to 666 to the end of my rc.local, but I was looking to find out why this happens. So? Later, David "Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."