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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!esosun.css.gov!seismo!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!mailgate.mobil.com!mobil.com!jdlacour From: jdlacour@dlsunf.dal.mobil.com (J. D. La Coursiere [Jeff]) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Repeat of XFree question Date: 13 Oct 1993 21:32:24 GMT Organization: Mobil Oil Corporation Lines: 41 Sender: jdlacour@dlsunf (J. D. La Coursiere [Jeff]) Distribution: world Message-ID: <29hs58$2mn@dlsn31> References: <11OCT93.08302892@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> <CEt1pD.HK@strix.cluster.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dlsunf.dal.mobil.com In article <CEt1pD.HK@strix.cluster.sub.org>, ura@strix.cluster.sub.org (Ulf Andrick) writes: > In <11OCT93.08302892@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in writes: > : XFree86-1.3u1, on NetBSD 0.9 gives me the following problems: > > : 1)xconsole (or xterm -C) gives me the console (or term) with the following > : message on it `couldn't open console' > > Have you tried that as root? (Only root should be able to redirect the > console.) > > -- > Ulf Andrick > ura@strix.cluster.sub.org Actually, the user that logged in to the console's getty/login should own /dev/console (in which case xterm -C would work fine). Check the owner/perms on /dev/console. If you are using xdm (which requires some fixing to be used with NetBSD 0.9 to incorporate the new passwd db) than you need to incorporate the scripts GiveConsole/TakeConsole (in /usr/lib/X11/xdm - assuming you have made /usr/*/X11 links to the /usr/X386/* dirs) into your xdm-config file like so: xdm-config:DisplayManager._0.startup: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole xdm-config:DisplayManager._0.reset: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole This accomplishes the same thing that /bin/login does for the user's tty. You may run into it not working if you did something like: * logged into the console as foo, su dude, xinit (foo owns console) * umask setting of user chmod's the tty unreadable probably various other things.... Jeff LaCoursiere Network Admin Mobil Research Facility Dallas, TX lacoursj@dal.mobil.com