Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/snd/seq access mode and permission

[Marc Joliet]

Am Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:40:47 +0200
schrieb Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de>:

> Am Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:54:34 -0700
> schrieb Cinder <cinder@××××××××××.com>:
>
> > Hi, how do I make changes to permissions and access mode of device nodes persistent? At the moment I have to chown and chmod the /dev/snd/seq node every boot to make it accessible to my user. the other nodes are fine. Here's the output of ls -l /dev/snd/
> >
> > total 0
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       60 Aug 17 18:44 by-path
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Aug 17 18:44 controlC0
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Aug 17 18:44 hwC0D0
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Aug 17 18:44 hwC0D3
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  9 Aug 17 18:44 hwC0D4
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  8 Aug 17 18:44 hwC0D5
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  7 Aug 17 18:44 pcmC0D0c
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  6 Aug 17 18:44 pcmC0D0p
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  5 Aug 17 18:44 pcmC0D1p
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  4 Aug 17 18:44 pcmC0D3p
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  3 Aug 17 18:44 pcmC0D7p
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  2 Aug 17 18:44 pcmC0D8p
> > crw-------  1 root root  116,  1 Aug 17 18:44 seq
> > crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Aug 17 18:44 timer
> >
> > I need /dev/snd/seq to look look the others. I can't find the udev rule or configuration that creates these nodes. Many thanks for any consideration.
>
> I have a hack for the same issue in my /etc/local.d/. A comment I put there
> says this:
>
> # this is caused by using devtmpfs, which creates nodes with root:root and 600;
> # I believe this is fixed by udev upstream
>
> So devtmpfs creates the device node before udev runs, but udev does not correct
> the access permissions, which is however fixed by udev upstream (perhaps
> already in ~arch?). Sadly I do not remember where I read this, but google should
> be of help there.

Ah, yes, I did a quick search on b.g.o and found this:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406871

So my comment is wrong, it doesn't have anything to do with devtmpfs, but udev
upstream did fix it :) .

HTH
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Marc Joliet
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