From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 28 07:05:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA00842 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 07:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from virginia.edu (mars.itc.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA00837 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 07:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa06519; 28 Apr 96 10:05 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA02087; Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:05:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA16138; Sun, 28 Apr 96 10:05:26 EDT Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 10:05:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Robert Nicholson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ownership of /dev/console? In-Reply-To: <199604280653.QAA10666@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robert Nicholson said: > > Hi, I'm using xterm -C and I'd like to know how generally controlling > ownership of /dev/console is performed. I want to capture the output > of the console ... Is there a problem doing that? > > Currently, I've had to chown /dev/console to the login user. If you actually login on the console or vtty, you can have devices chowned to the login user using /etc/fbtab. It has a man page. I don'tbelieve this approach works for xdm. Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/