Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:36:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: zgabor@CoDe.hu (Zahemszky Gabor) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions on /dev/console Message-ID: <199706102136.PAA05737@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199706091223.OAA00538@CoDe.hu> from "Zahemszky Gabor" at Jun 9, 97 02:23:09 pm
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Somebody asked:
% 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.
Gabor replied:
> If I remember right, you have to be the OWNER of /dev/console, to grab it
> with xconsole or xterm -C. So man 5 fbtab (or change it with chown).
Make sure your kernel is configured with:
options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console
This will allow any user to grab the console, so xterm -C and xconsole
will work.
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