On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 12:29, Bob Hartung wrote: > Tim Waugh wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:41:42PM -0500, Bob Hartung wrote: > > > > > > > >>## this may be a permissions error as a regular user can't run scanimage > >>-L now > >>## and find any scanners. > >> > >> > > > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121511 > > > >Tim. > >*/ > > > > > I kind of fell to the correction: > > changed permissions on /proc/bus/usb/002/002 to allow other than > "non-root" to execute. Whether this is permanent or I will need to look > further will await a reboot and here that is usually every 4-5 months > once I have things running. > > Bob > Bob, AFAIK *nothing* in /proc is permanent. That is a ram filesystem created at boot and it goes away and gets recreated at the next boot. If you want something to be semi-permanent in /proc you need a script to re-initialize it at boot time.