[12956] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7K: /dev/audio{,ctl}
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Nov 29 18:54:44 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 18:54:39 EST
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-126
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7K
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Use /dev/audio and /dev/audioctl
What's wrong:
Permissions are wrong:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 9 03:08 /dev/audio -> /dev/sound/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 9 03:08 /dev/audioctl -> /dev/sound/0ctl
$ ls -lL /dev/audi*
crw------- 1 root other 28, 0 May 3 1994 /dev/audio
crw------- 1 root other 28,128 May 3 1994 /dev/audioctl
/dev/audio* should be either mode 777, or should be owned by whoever
logs in on the console. Which one is a policy question.
What should have happened:
See above. A simple fix is to su to root and chmod 777 /dev/audio*...
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
I'm not sure. The srvd for 7.7K does not have a /dev/sound, and
I don't have time right now to trace the install process. I'm told
that this is a bug that has recurred in past Sun releases, so
I imagine that rel-eng knows how to fix it?
--jhawk
