From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 05:54:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA13540 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 05:54:46 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA13531 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 05:54:40 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id IAA10478; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 08:44:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 08:44:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: UCONSOLE To: Peter Marelas cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Peter Marelas wrote: > > I thought the following option was used for "ordinary" users to be able > to grab the console. > > options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console > > But xconsole still doesnt work for ordinary users. here is the line in .xsession i use for starting xconsole: xconsole -geometry 933+1-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail & Aspen:[9] ls -Flag /dev/console crw--w--w- 1 root wheel 0, 0 Nov 22 08:17 /dev/console (while not running X) check your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm directory and files as well (GiveConsole and TakeConsole in particular) Aspen:[13] ls -Flag total 37 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 22 06:49 ./ drwxr-xr-x 17 bin bin 512 May 30 20:21 ../ -rw------- 1 root wheel 44 Nov 22 06:49 A:0-000110 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 390 Jan 28 1995 GiveConsole* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 249 Jan 28 1995 TakeConsole* -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1976 Jan 28 1995 Xaccess -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1047 Jan 28 1995 Xresources -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 499 Sep 17 13:31 Xservers -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 639 Jan 28 1995 Xsession* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 150 Jan 28 1995 Xsetup_0* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20480 Jan 28 1995 chooser* -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 722 Jan 28 1995 xdm-config -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 2710 Nov 22 06:50 xdm-errors -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 6 Nov 16 22:51 xdm-pid from xdm-config: DisplayManager._0.startup: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole DisplayManager._0.reset: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346