sound in netscape

[Richard Hall <hall@ns.utk.edu>]

I'm still trying to get sound to work in Netscape.  When I try to play a
sound file, an error box pops up saying "Can't access device /dev/dsp".

bash-2.01$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw----   1 root     audio     14,   3 Jul 20 20:45 /dev/dsp

I'm trying to get Netscape to run as group audio.  I changed both the
wrapper script and the actual binary with 'chmod 2755' so that

bash-2.01$ ls -l /usr/lib/netscape/netscape 
-rwxr-sr-x   1 root     audio     6929928 Nov  2 20:42
/usr/lib/netscape/netscape

When I run netscape, though, it runs under my user ID according to 'top'.
The brutal solution is to change the permissions on /dev/dsp, but I'm
trying to learn and to do it the right way, so if anyone can explain to me
why netscape runs under my user ID, how I can change it, or even what
commands I might use to investigate the problem (strace?), I would be
appreciative.

Richard Hall
Network Services
University of Tennessee