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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Xconsole can't under FX86 3.1 Date: 7 Jan 1995 20:08:01 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3emsb1$dmv@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1995Jan5.004234.26465@wdl.loral.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1995Jan5.004234.26465@wdl.loral.com>, Richard Toren <rpt@miles> wrote: ..FreeBSD 2.0 > >Anyway, xconsole says it can not open /dev/console or some such. I >hate having to exit Xwin just to look at the virtual console. What >do I need to do? xterm -C also does not work. xdm handles the permission of /dev/console for you automatically, so if you want to use startx, you'll need to change the ownership of /dev/console to the user who will be using X instead of root. Nate -- nate@FreeBSD.org | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@schizo.coe.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Got lots of offers for work, now I need to home #: (406) 586-0579 | decide which job to take. :)