[mythtv-users] /dev files keep getting permissions reset (FC3)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/30/2006 02:42 PM, Neil Sedger wrote:

>(Fedora Core 3, following Jarod's guide quite a while ago)
>
>Something keeps changing/resetting the permissions on the useful /dev/ 
>files - e.g. /dev/video0, /dev/video16, /dev/mixer, /dev/snd/* etc.
>
>I put some lines into /etc/rc.local to give them group+global 
>read/write, which does the trick, but if the machine is up too long 
>without me using it then 'something' seems to be resetting the permissions.
>
>What might this be?
>
>How can I find out what is doing it?
>

udev - http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html , specifically see 
http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#mode-owner-group

Mike