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Re: Etch: DBUS and powersave daemon message



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On Friday 18 May 2007, Modestas Vainius was heard to say:
> 2007 m. May 18 d., Friday, Curt Howland rašė:
> >Along with "chmod 777 /dev/dsp" which I always have to do by
> > hand with every install.
>
> Why? Just add the user(s) to the audio group. Installer does this
> by default.

Ah, but if it did it by default, I wouldn't have to do it by hand 
would I?

Just like the single user on the machine not being added to the 
powerdev group automatically. If it had, we wouldn't be having this 
discussion.

- From a server administration standpoint, adding a new user to various 
groups by hand makes sense. This is not a server, it's a desktop 
machine with one user that has been there since the system was first 
installed. 

What user, new to Linux, is even going to know the addgroup command 
exists? Or after 12 years of using Debian, someone like myself who 
finds it more efficient to just change the permissions on the device 
that seems to be broken?

But thank you for the suggestion. I will go through and list all the 
groups (by the only way I know how, cat /etc/group) and add the one 
user to every group that isn't obviously wrong. Who knows what 
problems this might cause? I don't know. Maybe changing the 
permissions on /dev/dsp, /dev/hdc, /dev/raw1394 and the 
other "problems" that come up from time to time isn't such a bad idea 
after all.

Curt-

- -- 
September 11th, 2001
The proudest day for gun control and central 
planning advocates in American history

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