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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Xconsole Problem!!!!!
Date: 25 Mar 1996 10:11:06 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) writes:

: > : 	I have some problem with xconsole that running in FreeBSD2.1.0.  
: > : 	It said I can't open /dev/console.  However, I find that the user 
: > : 	can't have ownership with /dev/console.  Even with "option UCONSOLE" 
: > : 	have appear in the config file of the kernel.
: > 
: > today i had the same problem - it disapeared after rebooting - but maybe
: > this won't help for you :-(

: You are not using xdm, but startx instead, right?

wrong :-) - i use xdm with the standard console changing stuff - but as i said
it disapeared after a reboot - the permissions were ok - i tried a bit around
- and then rebootet - one more of the wonders of unix :-)

t

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  thomas graichen    graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de    graichen@FreeBSD.org

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