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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:56:30 -0400
From:      parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To:        User & Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: using xconsole with startx
Message-ID:  <20010712165630.A23236@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <20010712164457.A39967@localhost>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:44:57PM -0400
References:  <20010712164457.A39967@localhost>

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on Jul 12 16:53, i got this from User...
> 	Is there a way to get the xconsole command to work for normal users with startx?  As a
> normal user, when I execute the command xconsole I get the error message
> 
> couldn't open console
> 
> 	The permissions for /dev/ttyv0 are
> 
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   12,   0 Jul 11 08:49 ttyv0
> 
> 	and /etc/fbtab has this 
> 
> #/dev/ttyv0     0600    /dev/console
> 
> 	Is there a way to use the xauth command to add the ability to a read the console, but not
> write to it?  Would it be wise to uncomment the line in /etc/fbtab and make the permissions
> more lenient?
> 

just uncomment the line and not change the permissions of /dev/console,
then try again.

-- 
 so, do you like word games or scrabble?
	 - parv

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