I have a shell script that records from line in. I call shell script from cron. When I am logged in at console - it works. PAM does its thing. When I am not logged in - permission denied. In other distributions, this is easily solved by putting the user into the audio group, and /dev/dsp has 660 permissions. I tried doing a similar thing with fedora. Unfortunately Fedora thinks it is smarter than me, and resets the permissions when I reboot. How do I get Fedora to not revert a change I made for a reason? I really don't want to have to be logged in - the point of the cron job is to record at a specified time when I'm not home. Thanks for suggestions. btw - why doesn't Fedora use an audio group that a sysadmin can simply add users to? That really makes a lot more sense than using PAM for this - at least to me it does.
