Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:40:08 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> To: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: permissions on /dev/console Message-ID: <19970611154008.37542@blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199706111147.NAA00528@CoDe.hu>; from Zahemszky Gabor on Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 01:47:44PM %2B0200 References: <199706102136.PAA05737@xmission.xmission.com> <199706111147.NAA00528@CoDe.hu>
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On Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 01:47:44PM +0200, Zahemszky Gabor wrote:
> 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.
You don't have to do the chown() explicitly.
See question 6.29 of the FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ111.html
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