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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Xconsole Problem!!!!! Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:15:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4j4l2u$5tu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4in0r7$aff@ustsu10.ust.hk> <4ipcfe$11u@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) writes: > : I have some problem with xconsole that running in FreeBSD2.1.0. > : It said I can't open /dev/console. However, I find that the user > : can't have ownership with /dev/console. Even with "option UCONSOLE" > : have appear in the config file of the kernel. > > today i had the same problem - it disapeared after rebooting - but maybe this > won't help for you :-( You are not using xdm, but startx instead, right? xdm automagically cares for assigning the ownership of /dev/console to the user logging into X11. (This is done by the GiveConsole and TakeConsole scripts in /usr/X11R6/lib/xdm/.) For regular logins, you gotta care yourself. fbtab(5) is supposed to help you in this situation, or (in the case of a rather single-user home computer), you might hard-assign /dev/console to the most frequent user of the machine. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)