I was wondering if any of you know the internals of how the devices are modified on login. I'm particularly interested in sound devices. Seems like when I log in, if I login at the console, the sound devices are somehow rewritten. So right now I see this: [goldman at mn65-zippy ~]$ ls -l /dev/audio /dev/dsp crw------- 1 goldman root 14, 4 Mar 23 2001 /dev/audio crw------- 1 goldman root 14, 3 Mar 23 2001 /dev/dsp This is kinda a pain in the patootie if I want to have a box that is playing mp3s for me, and I'm not logged in from the console. I find the lines in the makedev.d/linux-2.4.x file that seems to be responsible for doing this: [goldman at mn65-zippy /etc]$ fgrep -i AUDIO makedev.d/linux-2.4.x c $CONSOLE 14 4 1 1 audio c $CONSOLE 14 7 1 1 audioctl c $CONSOLE 14 20 1 1 audio1 c $CONSOLE 145 4 64 4 sam%d_audio But how does this get invoked? It seems clear that somehow MAKEDEV is run on login. Anyone know where I would find out HOW it is run, so I could change it? Thanks, R