[asterisk-users] /dev/zap/channel ownership

[Mitch Miller]

* is having permission problems accessing /dev/zap/channel.  When I 
look, these devices (everything in /dev/zap) shows root.root for uid and 
gid.  If I start Asterisk from the command line, it runs fine (running 
as Root).  When I start it as a service, I get

Oct 19 23:02:55 WARNING[10587] chan_iax2.c: Unable to open IAX timing 
interface: Permission denied
Oct 19 23:02:55 WARNING[10587] chan_zap.c: Unable to open 
'/dev/zap/channel': Permission denied
Oct 19 23:02:55 ERROR[10587] chan_zap.c: Unable to open channel 1: 
Permission denied

So ... I changed ownership on /dev/zap/* to asterisk.asterisk and now 
everything seems to be running fine.

My question is ... how would the ownership on these devices have 
changed?  (I've not yet rebooted, but I'm suspicious that they'll revert 
back to root.root).

-- Mitch