Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:53:55 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> To: Greg MATTHEWS <G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xconsole Message-ID: <20010206145355.P62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <5320.981467197@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; from G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:46:37PM %2B0000 References: <5320.981467197@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:46:37PM +0000, Greg MATTHEWS wrote: > cant get xconsole to work under X. it delivers a message "cant open console" > (approx). i have compiled a kernel with option UCONSOLE in it but the same > error occurs. An ugly way to do it: - change permissions on /dev/console to 644 - change owner of /dev/console to your userid - change permission on /dev/console to 640 and put yourself in wheel I don't know if there are good ways to do it. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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