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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Repeat of XFree question Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services -- +1 713 684 5969 Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 13:59:17 GMT Message-ID: <CH5LIu.Jnp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <11OCT93.08302892@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> <CEt1pD.HK@strix.cluster.sub.org> Lines: 17 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.) Odd, it work on Suns. Wonder if there's a security hole lurking there, now that I think of it. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Ja' abracas-te o tey lobo, hoje? 'U` Looks like UNIX, Feels like UNIX, works like MVS -- IBM advertisement.