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I have noticed that /etc is not set to group staff

That's exactly right. Extensions belong in /opt, not /etc -- which (among other things) contains all your init/rc scripts. Not exactly where you'd want wide open privileges, even on a frugal install that reboots anyway (/opt can be made persistent, I don't think Robert has plans for persistent /etc yet).

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should I post more details of my work-around.

Nope!

I fully agree with lucky13 on this. Files that dsl writes should be limited to no more than /home/dsl and /opt, and personally I am not really all that happy about writing to /opt

You can do whatever you need within /home/dsl as far as PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other variabes are concerned. files that are needed to run a program can be installed wherever you want from a mydsl package, depending on the filename extension. If you need to change your environment in order to use these files you can do that without changing system files.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MyDSL_Extensions
refers to /etc and that is what I was referencing without refering to what I had actualy done.

it was actualy /var/tmp that I changed permitions and ownership on based on failures that caused success.

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refers to /etc

No, it doesn't. It says that by default extensions download to /tmp (/tmp/mydsl to be exact).

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it was actualy /var/tmp that I changed permitions and ownership

Huh? Why did you download to /var/anything? And why start chown'ing there? You should download to /tmp/mydsl -- the default -- and leave the rest of the system safe and secure with tighter permissions.

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Note: You must ensure that the group permissions for /tmp be set to staff as some builds may default to root. If not set properly MyDSL will not load selected extensions.

edit: the other was related to ALSA and the Aztech ISA PnP sound card I am trying to get to work and I'm not even sure its the right version of ALsa.
I am experimenting on a competly disposable computer with good isolation from the rest of my netowrk and what works, I backup the backup the backup file to another partion and also ftp to the web-server on my lan so I can easly roll back to what worked before. This is a realy learning esperience. thanks

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