From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 11:51: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from praseodumium.btinternet.com (praseodumium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7641837BC85 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.72.90] (helo=parish.my.domain) by praseodumium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12aOTR-0007NG-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:49:54 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01216; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:50:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:50:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Xconsole Message-ID: <20000329205026.D237@parish> References: <20000328224849.A518@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000328224849.A518@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@nwu.edu on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:48:49PM -0600 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:48:49PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I keep getting "Couldn't open console" when trying to run xconsole as > non-root. So, what am I doing wrong? I thought I compiled my kernel with the > ability to see console messages? Do I have to be a member of a > certain group? Uncomment the following line in /etc/fbtab: /dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console > -- > David Kanter > djkanter@nwu.edu > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Seminars, n.: From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message