[MPlayer-users] rtc question; conf problems solved

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On 6. July 2004 at 12:46AM +0200,
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:

> On Monday, 05 July 2004 at 15:40, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> > Chuck: Can you please clarify what command you used? I'm just
> > running mplayer, so I'm not sure what the exact command is
> > that's being run, just that I get "unable to open /dev/rtc:
> > permission denied; /dev/rtc should be readable by the
> > user". And indeed, to look at the permissions for /dev/rtc,
> > which are 660, one would think it should be readable by the
> > user. I thought this was something that had to be done when
> > mplayer was launched.
> 
> No. 660 is rw-rw----, and that's not readable by everyone. Just
> do chmod o+r /dev/rtc as root and you should be good to go.

It would be less evil to create a common group for the user and
/dev/rtc.  Or in a single user system simply doing chgrp user
/dev/rtc.  That way 660 works without the user being root or
giving everyone permission.