From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 30 13:00:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA23440 for current-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 13:00:27 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA22930 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:52:43 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA05444; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:52:26 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA18850; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:52:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA20203; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:38:06 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511302038.VAA20203@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: xconsole: Couldn't open console To: sycheng@cis.ufl.edu Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:38:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511301155.GAA08561@sloop.cis.ufl.edu> from "sycheng@cis.ufl.edu" at Nov 30, 95 06:55:26 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 859 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As sycheng@cis.ufl.edu wrote: > > > Please forgive me if this is a stupid question. the "xconsole" on my > machine always generate "Couldn't open console" message. I do include the > "UCONSOLE" and "XSERVER" options but still got no luck. Could anyone tell > me why ? I am using the lastest current codes. Who's the owner of your /dev/console? If you're not running xdm (and use the GiveConsole/TakeConsole scripts for chown'ing /dev/console), it's likely that your console device ain't owned by yourself. Option "XSERVER" is only still needed with pcvt, and option "UCONSOLE" just means that non-root users are allowed to redirect the console, provided they can open /dev/console. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)