Re: gmc + other weirdness

[famrom idecnet com (Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero)]

>>$ ll /dev/dsp
>>crw-------    1 gnu      sys       14,   3 Apr 17  1999 /dev/dsp
>>
>Here it is:
>
>crw--------	1 507	mail	14,	3 Apr 17 199 /dev/dsp
>crw--------	1 507	mail	14,	19 Apr 17 1999 /dev/dsp1

It should be something like username sysgroup (my machines have sound, so
anybody in sound group can play things if crw-rw----).

>That may be the problem- I have no user with a UID though I do have a 
>group mail

mail? That is really wrong.

>I'll look on my Red Hat box on work on monday (really nice- Sun 
>Ultra1, though I'm not too fond of Red Hat...) and figure out a 
>proper user/group scheme for gnome on my  LFS system at home.

Advice: RedHat uses PAM, so it changes device owner as you log in.

>I know how this happened. I built my home system all from source, but 
>it would have been very tedious to remake every fricken node for 
>every device, so I copied the entire /dev directory from the previous 
>system.

You should have used your old passwd and group files from etc too.

GSR