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Date:      Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:34:13 -0700
From:      Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>
To:        Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Users can't open console
Message-ID:  <19980909193413.A16949@notabene.zer0.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980908091330.A4718@emu.sourcee.com>; from Norman C Rice on Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 09:13:30AM -0400
References:  <19980908013001.A1878@notabene.zer0.org> <19980908091330.A4718@emu.sourcee.com>

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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?

Regards,

Greg
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