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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: permissions on /dev/console
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:47:44 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <199706102136.PAA05737@xmission.xmission.com> from Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC at "Jun 10, 97 03:36:50 pm"
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> Somebody asked:
> %   I am trying to arrange to see my console messages. This is 2.2.1R.
> % the /dev/console is 
> % 
> % crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,   0 Jun  5 21:18 /dev/console
> % 
> % Xterm -C never picks up anytrhing, and xconsole says it can not open 
> % the console. This looks like a permissions problem. What should they
> % be; and who should be the owner. Whne I exit from Xwindows, I find
> % all the messages on the tty screen where I logged in.
> 
> Gabor replied:
> > If I remember right, you have to be the OWNER of /dev/console, to grab it
> > with xconsole or xterm -C.  So man 5 fbtab (or change it with chown).
> 
> Make sure your kernel is configured with:
> 
> 	options		UCONSOLE	#Allow users to grab the console
> 
> This will allow any user to grab the console, so xterm -C and xconsole
> will work.

Well, in my 2.1.5, I have UCONSOLE in kernel, but have to be the
owner of the file.  I tried, with chown root:tty /dev/console (in my kernel,
there is UCONSOLE), but neither xterm -C, nor xconsole cannot work.  So I
have to explicitly chown <myloginname> /dev/console, to work.  It's in the
xterm manual, but nothing about it in xconsole's man.

Gabor

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