From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 5 18:27:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA18543 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hps.sso.wdl.lmco.com (hps.sso.wdl.lmco.com [158.186.22.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA18524 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hps (hps.sso.wdl.lmco.com) by hps.sso.wdl.lmco.com (4.1/SSO-4.01-LMCO) id AA23434; Thu, 5 Jun 97 21:18:28 EDT Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 21:18:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Toren X-Sender: rpt@hps To: questions Subject: permissions on /dev/console Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Folks, 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. ==================================================== Rip Toren | The bad news is that C++ is not an object-oriented | rpt@sso.wdl.lmco.com | programming language. .... The good news is that | | C++ supports object-oriented programming. | | C++ Programming & Fundamental Concepts | | by Anderson & Heinze | ====================================================