From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 10:31:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA18057 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po9.andrew.cmu.edu (PO9.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA17991 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from postman@localhost) by po9.andrew.cmu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA07119 for freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:30:27 -0400 Received: via switchmail; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:30:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unix19.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:28:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unix19.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:28:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mms.4.60.Jan.26.1995.18.43.47.sun4c.411.EzMail.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix19.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c.411 via MS.5.6.unix19.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c_411; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:28:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:28:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Jason White To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev/console permissions In-Reply-To: <9606051548.AA16570@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> References: <9606051548.AA16570@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-questions: 5-Jun-96 /dev/console permissions by Jeffrey M. Metcalf@stat. > I am running the fvwm window manager and would like my users to be able to > run xconsole so tha they may check the console messages. However, they are > unable to redirect the output since no matter who logs into the console, > it always seems to be owned by root.users. There evidently must be a way > to make the > > /dev/console > > file be owned by whomever logged into the terminal. Define: options UCONSOLE in your kernel configuration file and then recompile. That should do the trick for you. -Matt ----- Matt White Email: mwhite+@cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/mwhite/www/