Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 01:45:55 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Users can't open console Message-ID: <19980910014555.A18589@notabene.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <19980910000120.A11713@emu.sourcee.com>; from Norman C Rice on Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 12:01:20AM -0400 References: <19980908013001.A1878@notabene.zer0.org> <19980908091330.A4718@emu.sourcee.com> <19980909193413.A16949@notabene.zer0.org> <19980910000120.A11713@emu.sourcee.com>
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On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 12:01:20AM -0400, Norman C Rice wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 07:34:13PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > > > This does indeed work. Thanks, Norman. It only solves half my > > problem, though. I have an X server and want to, upon startup of > > the server, open an xconsole on the local machine and on another > > machine in the local network, both of which display on the X server. > > Now the first xconsole works properly, but the second still does > > not, because I'm not opening the console on any tty, but just with > > the command: > > rsh notabene '/usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -verbose -display edge:0.0' > > > Can you telnet or rlogin to notabene and launch xconsole > successfully? ``/usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -display unix:0'' Sure, but the only way it successfully opens the console is if I run it as root. The program itself executes fine; I'm having no trouble with that part. It just doesn't have permission to open the console device. > Ensure that notabene's /etc/fbtab contains > > /dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console It does, but unlike edge (the X box), where the xconsole (run with the exact same command line sans the rsh command, and having the same line in the /etc/fbtab file), on which the xconsole is attached to a terminal, edge gsutter ~ $ps -ax | grep xconsol[e] 903 v0 S 0:00.10 xconsole on notabene, the xconsole is not attached to any terminal. notabene gsutter ~ $ps -ax | grep xconsol[e] 18547 ?? I 0:01.20 /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole Therefore the fbtab line is not applied. Is there a way around this, other than executing the xconsole command as root? Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter My reality check just bounced. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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