From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 5:54:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEA437B698 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 05:53:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 94EBE64; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:53:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:53:55 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Greg MATTHEWS Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xconsole Message-ID: <20010206145355.P62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Greg MATTHEWS , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <5320.981467197@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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