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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:01:20 -0400
From:      Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Users can't open console
Message-ID:  <19980910000120.A11713@emu.sourcee.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980909193413.A16949@notabene.zer0.org>; from Gregory Sutter on Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:34:13PM -0700
References:  <19980908013001.A1878@notabene.zer0.org> <19980908091330.A4718@emu.sourcee.com> <19980909193413.A16949@notabene.zer0.org>

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On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:34:13PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 09:13:30AM -0400, Norman C Rice wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 01:30:01AM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote:
> > > Even with "options UCONSOLE" set in the kernel, I can't get any
> > > non-root 'xconsole' to grab the console.  
> > 
> > man fbtab. Try placing the following in /etc/fbtab
> > 
> >   /dev/ttyv0      0600    /dev/console
> 
> This does indeed work.  Thanks, Norman.  It only solves half my
> problem, though.  I have an X server and want to, upon startup of
> the server, open an xconsole on the local machine and on another
> machine in the local network, both of which display on the X server.
> Now the first xconsole works properly, but the second still does
> not, because I'm not opening the console on any tty, but just with
> the command:
> rsh notabene '/usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -verbose -display edge:0.0'
> 
> Is there a way to make this work?

I believe so provided notabene is not already running xconsole. 

Can you telnet or rlogin to notabene and launch xconsole 
successfully? ``/usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -display unix:0''

Can rsh from edge to notabene? ``rsh notabene /bin/ls''

Ensure that notabene's /etc/fbtab contains

   /dev/ttyv0       0600      /dev/console

You may have to use the xhost command (or other means) to allow 
notabene to access edge's display. You may want to use the 
`-title xconsole@notabene' option with rsh to prevent confusion.
-- 
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.

> Regards,
> 
> Greg
> -- 
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