From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 13 6:12:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from idea.co.uk (ultra2.idea.co.uk [194.36.20.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2905014DB3 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 06:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kiril@idea.co.uk) Received: (from kiril@localhost) by idea.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA05831; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:04:58 +0100 (BST) From: Kiril Mitev Message-Id: <199905131304.OAA05831@idea.co.uk> Subject: Re: enabling xconsole To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:04:58 +0100 (BST) Cc: kiril@ideaglobal.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at May 12, 99 03:10:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White: > > On Wed, 12 May 1999, Kiril Mitev wrote: > > > can someone let me know/point me to the docs > > wrt how to get xconsole to grab the "the" console > > instead of explaining that it couln't open console? > > > > i have UCONSOLE in the kernel, if it makes any difference > > I've noticed that xconsole gets unhappy sometimes. What's the permissions > on /dev/console? crw--w--w- 1 root wheel 0, 0 May 12 19:48 /dev/console the default, I would assume :-) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10572 Dec 30 10:17 /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole* ditto are you hinting that i should do a chmod 666 on /dev/console ? Kiril > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message