From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 22:59:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803F237BA9A for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA43147; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38E1A9BD.2C937069@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:59:09 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0325 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Xconsole References: <20000328224849.A518@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David J. Kanter" wrote: > > 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? You want to use a little-publicized feature called fbtab. Check out the man page for it, it's located in /etc. You could also give xdm a try. It starts xconsole as part of its normal process, and when you log in you inherit it to your desktop. Good luck, Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message