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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console? Date: 3 Feb 1994 08:16:31 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2iqbsv$k19@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2if6nl$pus@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CKIuou.7B5@nas.nasa.gov> <2im7n6$agv@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CKM7w8.Hvo@nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CKM7w8.Hvo@nas.nasa.gov>, Dave Tweten <tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov> wrote: >Incidently, for reasons I've never bothered to investigate, xconsole >only succeeds when I run under Xdm. If I shut off Xdm and start X with >xinit, xconsole flashes and disappears. I've never bothered to >investigate it because I only use the xinit route while adjusting X's >graphics display magic numbers. Xconsole works fine under Xdm, my >preferred way to use X. That's because xdm runs as root and if you look in /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm you'll notice that it runs xconsole (which means it's running as root) whereas if you run xconsole you don't have the correct permissions to run it. >>Also, what happens when you quit X and try to use job control on the >>tty? > >Nothing surprising. I just reconfigured to avoid using Xdm, rebooted, >ran xinit, su'ed, exited, exited X, started a long-winded find, hit ^Z >to put it into the background, and all worked well. The problem only occurs when the 'kill -HUP syslogd.pid' stuff runs and hangs the console (except for the xconole stuff it would hang your console). Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.