xconsole: "Couldn't open console"
Can someone tell me why xconsole called without the '-file' option isn't
able to read /dev/console? I have /dev/console world readable:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 0 Apr 6 18:58 /dev/console
Yet it says it isn't able to open console. On the other hand, "xconsole
-file /dev/console" works... I know I can use /dev/xconsole, and that
works as well since you specifically have to specify the -file option.
This is an issue of compatibility across different machine types and I'd
like xconsole to be able to read from /dev/console without having to
specify the file.
Clues, anyone?
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Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
steveh@eecs.umich.edu Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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