On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:17, Olafur Sigurgeirsson wrote: > Hi > I am currently compiling garnome (Gnome2) as user "B". > I login as user "A" to do other work while waiting and notice that I can > not access /dev/audio | mixer | dsp. When I check I see that those > devices are now owned by user "B". I have noticed this behavior before > in RedHat 7.x and would love to know why this happens, a simple compile > job should mess with ownership of devices ?
I think its to do with pam and X and only allowing one user to alter the permissions of /dev/mixer at a time (but I may be wrong!). You'll be ok, if you logged in using only a console, as generally no two people log into X at the same time or want to use the same sound system on the same computer at the same time, hence the problem. Mark -- --- Universal Truths: "SEEKING CANDIDATES WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIENCE" You'll need it to replace three people who just left.
