Strange problem with arts

[Sakari Aaltonen]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Angela Kahealani wrote:

> 
> I experience that "the system" keeps "correcting" permissions on
> /dev devices to make them only available to root, and that I have
> to repair them to make them accessible every time I log-in...
> /dev/scanner --> /dev/sg1
> /dev/dvd --> /dev/scd0
> /dev/cdrom --> /dev/hdc
> /dev/dsp
> all revert to group root and permissions 600,
> and I keep manually changing them to 660 group "disk",
> where my user account is a member of group disk.
> 
> Thus XSANE can't find scanner, sound doesn't work, and I can't
> write DVD-RAMs until I patch up permissions... does anyone know
> where there is a template of ownership / permissions that
> the OS keeps using to "correct" the settings in /dev, so I can
> change the template once instead of the individual devices every login?

I don't (know), but I thought I'd offer my sympathy. I suspect KDE is
doing this. If user A logs in, many devices in /dev are owned by A;
if user B logs in, then many devices in /dev are owned by B. I don't
understand why this is so. Of course, you might not be using KDE... 

(I'm downloading Gentoo+Gnome while writing this.)


Sakari Aaltonen