Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:53:55 +0100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl>
To:        Greg MATTHEWS <G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xconsole
Message-ID:  <20010206145355.P62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl>
In-Reply-To: <5320.981467197@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; from G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:46:37PM %2B0000
References:  <5320.981467197@cs.ucl.ac.uk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:46:37PM +0000, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> cant get xconsole to work under X. it delivers a message "cant open console" 
> (approx). i have compiled a kernel with option UCONSOLE in it but the same 
> error occurs.

An ugly way to do it:
- change permissions on /dev/console to 644
- change owner of /dev/console to your userid
- change permission on /dev/console to 640 and put yourself in wheel

I don't know if there are good ways to do it.

Edwin

-- 
Edwin Groothuis   |           Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions:
mavetju@chello.nl |                     http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/
------------------+               telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010206145355.P62745>