On 20/11/99 Brian Servis wrote:
I fixed it by adding my user to the adm group. I don't know the
reasononing behind having xconsole as group adm though. It is the
only device in /dev with that group ownership. Remember that passwords
and other private info can be put on the logs so don't make i
*- On 20 Nov, Chia-Sheng Chang wrote about "xconsole problem"
> Hi, all,
> I run xdm on my computer but every time I login, xconsole always
> responses "can not open console". How to solve this??
>
% ls -l /dev/xconsole
0 prw-r-1 root adm 0 Nov 20 08:30 /dev/xco
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> Still cannot seem to get xconsole to work properly. Appreciate any
> suggestions anyone can offer.
>
> I use xdm, which gives the usual login screen. There is also
> usually a blank window at the lower right side of the screen on
> the xdm login screen.
> "Nathan" == Nathan L Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nathan> When I run 'xconsole' as a non-root user, I get the
Nathan> following message (inside the xconsole window):
[...]
Nathan> Anybody have any idea what to do with this conundrum?
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