Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:28:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Jason White <mwhite+@CMU.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev/console permissions Message-ID: <olhQD0S00YUvICeW0M@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <9606051548.AA16570@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> References: <9606051548.AA16570@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-questions: 5-Jun-96 /dev/console permissions by Jeffrey M. Metcalf@stat. > I am running the fvwm window manager and would like my users to be able to > run xconsole so tha they may check the console messages. However, they are > unable to redirect the output since no matter who logs into the console, > it always seems to be owned by root.users. There evidently must be a way > to make the > > /dev/console > > file be owned by whomever logged into the terminal. Define: options UCONSOLE in your kernel configuration file and then recompile. That should do the trick for you. -Matt ----- Matt White Email: mwhite+@cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/mwhite/www/
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