From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 5 11:07:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20784 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 11:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA20771 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 11:07:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id TAA23250; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:04:47 +0100 (BST) To: Matthew Jason White cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: /dev/console permissions In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jun 1996 13:28:32 EDT." Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 19:04:46 +0100 Message-ID: <23248.833997886@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matthew Jason White wrote in message ID : > Define: > > options UCONSOLE > > in your kernel configuration file and then recompile. That should do > the trick for you. No, that just allows user-level code to grab the console output, it doesn't affect file ownership. I believe it's even a no-op for syscons, and just used for pcvt (from memory) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info