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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:46:46 GMT
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        jeff@stat.uconn.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/console permissions
Message-ID:  <199606051946.TAA24870@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9606051548.AA16570@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> (jeff@stat.uconn.edu)

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> 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.

Indeed there is - 'man fbtab' for details.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk         | jraynard@freebsd.org




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