From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 6 11:25:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA25969 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 11:25:44 -0700 Received: from wdl1.wdl.loral.com (wdl1.wdl.loral.com [137.249.32.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA25961 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 11:25:42 -0700 Received: from miles.sso.loral.com (miles.wdl.loral.com) by wdl1.wdl.loral.com (5.x/WDL-2.4-1.0) id AA29264; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 11:25:10 -0700 Received: by miles.sso.loral.com (4.1/SSO-SUN-2.04) id AA12656; Sun, 6 Aug 95 14:25:24 EDT Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 14:25:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Toren X-Sender: rpt@miles To: hackers Subject: /dev/console & xconsole Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Is there some magic I need to work to get xconsole to be able to open the console from my .xinitrc in 2.05? Did some characteristic of /dev/console change? It works if started manually after an 'su'. Current permissions are: # ll /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 16384 May 8 20:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole # ll /dev/console crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 0 Aug 6 11:53 /dev/console .xinitrc line is: xconsole -geometry 400x70+617+25 & giving: "Couldn't open console in it's window. This used to work in 2.0R, ==================================================== Rip Toren | The bad news is that C++ is not an object-oriented | rpt@miles.sso.loral.com | programming language. .... The good news is that | | C++ supports object-oriented programming. | | C++ Programming & Fundamental Concepts | | by Anderson & Heinze | ====================================================