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Date:      Thu, 13 May 1999 14:04:58 +0100 (BST)
From:      Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White)
Cc:        kiril@ideaglobal.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: enabling xconsole
Message-ID:  <199905131304.OAA05831@idea.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905121510020.23756-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at May 12, 99 03:10:20 pm

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Doug White:
> 
> On Wed, 12 May 1999, Kiril Mitev wrote:
> 
> > can someone let me know/point me to the docs
> > wrt how to get xconsole to grab the "the" console
> > instead of explaining that it couln't open console?
> > 
> > i have UCONSOLE in the kernel, if it makes any difference
> 
> I've noticed that xconsole gets unhappy sometimes.  What's the permissions
> on /dev/console?

crw--w--w-  1 root  wheel    0,   0 May 12 19:48 /dev/console

the default, I would assume :-)

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10572 Dec 30 10:17 /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole*

ditto

are you hinting that i should do a chmod 666 on /dev/console ?


Kiril

> 
> Doug White                               
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