Indeed, I also never touch linuxconf, and I had always assumed that I
would have to activate it for it to begin working on my system...
Any other guesses?
Later,
david
"Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Joel West wrote:
> Probably not linuxconf as the 1st thing I do is rpm -e linuxconf and I am
> having similar probs.
>
> JW
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Eric Rahmig wrote:
>
> > On 4 Oct 99, at 17:51, R. David Whitlock wrote:
> >
> > > Whenever I reboot my Mandrake 6.0 system, the permissions on several
> > > important files change from 666 to 600 so that other users are unable to
> > > use them. Each time I reboot, I have to change them back.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think linuxconf is doing this at boot
> > time. It keeps a list of certain files for which it will verify the
> > permissions. You could try going into linuxconf and telling it that
> > you want the permissions on /dev/audio and /dev/dsp to be 666.
> > Unfortunately, I can't tell you the exact menu sequence to traverse
> > since I don't currently have access to my Mandrake machine.
> > Look for a menu item with "file permissions" in the description.
> >
> > Can anyone confirm that it is linuxconf doing this or whether I'm
> > giving totally bogus advice?
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Eric Rahmig
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
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