> 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. > > I don't know the answer to your last question but I Know why the system resets the permissions on the sound dev. See file /etc/security/console.perms under permissions definitions. That is where to sound permissions are set. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
