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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!128.6.21.17!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!daikichi!kenn From: kenn@daikichi.uucp (Ken Nakata) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: xconsole Date: 9 Jun 1997 19:53:49 GMT Organization: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5nhn0d$dba@dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu> References: <339C495D.2246@dma.epfl.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: blakey-b-asy-3.rutgers.edu X-poster: kenn@eden-backend Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6103 In article <339C495D.2246@dma.epfl.ch>, Nicolas MOERI <moeri@dma.epfl.ch> wrote: > > - The console cannot be redirected in a X console window when I'm not > root. (I've set the setuid and the setgid of xconsole to root and > anybody can write on the console). > > - Even if X manages to open a X console (when I'm root), after a su > root, message are sent both in the X console window and on the screen, > which scroll the screen. The answers are found in the NetBSD/mac68k FAQ written by Colin Wood: http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/ There are other useful information, so you really should go read the docs there. Cheers, Ken