[MPlayer-users] Re: rtc question; conf problems solved

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:54:52AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> The suggestion below gets Steve the 'helpful hint" award for the morning; 
> I did
> chmod ++s /usr/local/bin/mplayer
> and have no more problems with /dev/rtc.
> Thanks!!!

NO! DONT DO THIS! DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING THIS!
Rather do a "chgrp yourgroup /dev/rtc" in the same place where
you put the "echo 1024 > ...". "yourgroup" is the group your
user is in ("users" on SUSE for example). Making mplayer suid
root is about the stupidest thing to do, do it only if you want
your system to be root compromised ASAP.

BTW: the /dev/rtc message is typically not a problem, ist is more
like a diagnostic message.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried