From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 20:49:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D3D37B59A for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:49:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djkanter@nwu.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA13178 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:49:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (dika-5-028121.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.121]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma013140; Tue, 28 Mar 00 22:48:59 -0600 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00532 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:48:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:48:49 -0600 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Xconsole Message-ID: <20000328224849.A518@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I keep getting "Couldn't open console" when trying to run xconsole as non-root. So, what am I doing wrong? I thought I compiled my kernel with the ability to see console messages? Do I have to be a member of a certain group? -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message