Permsissions for /usr/lib/oss/save?

[Lee]

I sometimes (seemingly randomly) have trouble getting sound to work on various systems and I wonder if it might be related to the permissions on /usr/lib/oss/save/

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tc@leepc:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/oss/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           500 Jun 30 10:15 conf/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           500 May 12  2010 conf.tmpl/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           180 May 29  2009 cuckoo/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           140 Jun 30 10:15 etc/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           100 May 12  2010 etc.tmpl/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            60 Dec 13  2008 etc_templates/
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root           100 May 12  2010 include/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           140 May 12  2010 lib/
drwx------    2 root     root            40 May 12  2010 save/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           100 May 12  2010 scripts/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            40 Jun 30 10:15 soundon.user -> /tmp/tcloop/OSS/usr/lib/oss/soundon.user
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            39 Jun 30 10:15 version.dat -> /tmp/tcloop/OSS/usr/lib/oss/version.dat

It just strikes me as odd that that directory's permissions differ from all the others.  Does anyone know if it is supposed to be so, or if that's an issue?

[curaga]

Permissions don't really matter for root, it could be 000 and root could still read and write there.

[Lee]

Thanks Curaga.

I didn't know if user tc needed to write there for anything.  I presume not?

[curaga]

No, soundon and soundoff require root permissions.