From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 11 07:40:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA26824 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coconut.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA26818 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by coconut.blueberry.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA14722; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:40:08 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970611154008.37542@blueberry.co.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:40:08 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Zahemszky Gabor Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: permissions on /dev/console References: <199706102136.PAA05737@xmission.xmission.com> <199706111147.NAA00528@CoDe.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: <199706111147.NAA00528@CoDe.hu>; from Zahemszky Gabor on Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 01:47:44PM +0200 Organization: Blueberry New Media Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 /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 N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Contributing to the heat death of the Universe since 1973 ]=+--