Last week I was able to run alsamixer as a user on the Sony Vaio; this > morning I cannot because the system tells me that there is no such file or > directory as alsamixer, even when passed the absolute path of > /usr/bin/alsamixer. Root has no problems with this file.
> The permissions are 755 so a user should be able to execute it. If the > distribution is applicable it's Slackware-14.0/x86_64 will all security > patches applied. > > The man page does not seem to help me; command line options are > ineffective if the executable cannot be found. Web searches for 'alsamixer > not found' and 'alsamixer not found for user' did not return anything > relevant. > > There must be a simple reason for this but I have difficulty finding the > reason and solution. > > Rich > > -- It's not clear whether or not the alsamixer executable file actually exists because you say root has no problems and the user perms are set to 755. Is there an alsamixer file in /usr/bin that can be executed as the root user? As a test can you execute "amixer" as a non-root user? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
