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From: Tony Harverson <tony@hornet.netac.co.za>
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Subject: Xconsole woes..
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 20:09:58 +0200 (SAT)
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Hiya All,

I seem to be having a problem with Xconsole which is a little
whacky...

It refuses to open the console when I run it as a regular user.  As a
test, I changed the permissions on /dev/console to 777 (and this still
didn't work).  I then changed the ownership of the console to my
userid and that worked beautifully. (under 600 permissions too)

(the GID at the time was both (I tested a number of times) wheel and
operator (groups to which both root and I have access) and still I
have no luck opening the console.

(btw : yes, OPTIONS UCONSOLE *is compiled into the kernel)

vanilla 2.1 install..

Anyone know of why this is failing ?

Tony