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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!metro!news
From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86, no console for non-root user
Message-ID: <1992Sep24.132528.5207@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
References: <david.717225352@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> <1992Sep23.132041.11924@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Sep23.180754.6788@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 13:25:28 GMT
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In article <1992Sep23.180754.6788@news.tu-graz.ac.at> chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes:
>In article <1992Sep23.132041.11924@ucc.su.OZ.AU> dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes:
>>In article <david.717225352@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:
>>>dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes:
>>>This just *might* be completely un related, but when I (using xdm) login as
>>>*me*, and later type 'su' and enter the password, it gives me a root
>>>prompt, and promptly locks the keyboard. I can mouse around, cutting and
>>>pasting, but I cannot use any keys!!!
>>
>>I haven't seen this problem.  I'd guess that something is opening
>>/dev/console.  Have you changed the "console" line in /etc/ttys to "vga"?
>>
>Maybe syslog is configured so that it writes SU messages to the console ?

This is not a problem because it opens /dev/console when it starts at boot
time.  But, if you send syslog a SIGHUP while X is running, it reopens the
console and kills the keyboard (for X).

David
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