From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 17:40:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA20708 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20689 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aa14654; 6 Jun 96 1:14 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa07996; 6 Jun 96 1:14 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA24870; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:46:46 GMT Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:46:46 GMT Message-Id: <199606051946.TAA24870@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <9606051548.AA16570@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> (jeff@stat.uconn.edu) Subject: Re: /dev/console permissions Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am running the fvwm window manager and would like my users to be able to > run xconsole so tha they may check the console messages. However, they are > unable to redirect the output since no matter who logs into the console, > it always seems to be owned by root.users. There evidently must be a way > to make the > > /dev/console > > file be owned by whomever logged into the terminal. Indeed there is - 'man fbtab' for details. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org