On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:55 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> So I'm thinking it's the same infrastructure to prevent others music >> playing when you switch users. But in my case I *want* it to play. Any >> ideas? > > /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms > I created a new perms file called 51-default.perms and added ## <sound>=/dev/snd/* /dev/snd <console> 0666 <sound> 0666 root ## rebooted (Did I need to?) I now notice that the devices in /dev/snd are crw-rw-rw-+. So Others should be able to write to the device. But I still cannot get cron to play an ogg music file unless it's for the person currently logged in. I have checked that the file plays fine when normally played so it's not an issue with ogg123 or the music file. Here is my crontab line (as tried for root) 30 12 * * 1 /usr/bin/ogg123 /root/Mists_of_Time-4T.ogg /var/log/cron tells me the command is issued but no sound from speakers. Here's the funny part. If I ssh in (as a different user) and run ogg123 from command line, sound plays on the sshd server machine. It works!! But not if I set it to play using cron. So basically one must be logged in either at the machine or through ssh. Also, if nobody is logged in, nothing is heard. But as soon as I log into the user who has the cron job running, the sound comes on immediately at login. If I then log out while the song is playing, sound stops. Log back in and sound comes on again. Obviously, the ogg123 process is running but the sound is being disconnected unless the user is logged in. wondering if udev rules is somehow responsible. Here is /etc/udev/rules.d/90-alsa.rules ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="sound", KERNEL=="controlC*", \ RUN+="/sbin/alsactl -E ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/alsa/alsactl.conf --initfile=/lib/alsa/init/00main restore /dev/$name" ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="sound", KERNEL=="controlC*", \ RUN+="/sbin/alsactl -E ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/alsa/alsactl.conf store /dev/$name" Any ideas much appreciated? -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
