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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Repeat of XFree question
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services -- +1 713 684 5969
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 13:59:17 GMT
Message-ID: <CH5LIu.Jnp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <11OCT93.08302892@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> <CEt1pD.HK@strix.cluster.sub.org>
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In article <CEt1pD.HK@strix.cluster.sub.org> ura@strix.cluster.sub.org (Ulf Andrick) writes:
> In <11OCT93.08302892@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes:
> : XFree86-1.3u1, on NetBSD 0.9 gives me the following problems:

> : 1)xconsole (or xterm -C) gives me the console (or term) with the following
> :   message on it `couldn't open console'

> Have you tried that as root? (Only root should be able to redirect the 
> console.)

Odd, it work on Suns. Wonder if there's a security hole lurking there, now
that I think of it.
-- 
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