From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 2 19:27:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED3C37B71F for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id TAA08563 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:27:17 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda08561; Mon Apr 2 19:27:00 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f332Qt168426 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpde68420; Mon Apr 2 19:26:09 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f332Q5K41000 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104030226.f332Q5K41000@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdo40950; Mon Apr 2 19:25:34 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xconsole broken in recent 4.3-RC? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:17:30 EDT." <20010402221730.B15104@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 19:25:34 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010402221730.B15104@pir.net>, Peter Radcliffe writes: > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group probably > said: > > GiveConsole should contain: > > chown root /dev/console > > Errrm, are you sure that's what you meant ? > > xconsole checks if /dev/console belongs to to the user running it, > last I checked, so you need; > > chown $USER /dev/console You are correct. My machines at work are configured as in your example. One of my machines at home is misconfigured. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message