Re: xconsole and who owns /dev/console?
On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Bill Hogan wrote:
> (1) no messages appear in user gonzo's xconsole window unless root
> issues a
> kill -HUP `cat /var/syslog.pid`
syslogd will stop sending things to a named pipe if the pipe fills up.
I believe the pipe size under Linux to be 8k. If you start xconsole up
soon enough after booting, you won't have a problem.
> (2) possibly as a consequence of (1), gonzo *owns* /dev/console
> after he quits X (on my setup /dev/console is a link to /dev/tty0).
Since /dev/console is a symbolic link, its permissions and owners are
irrelevant. The permissions and owner of /dev/tty0, what /dev/console
points to, are what determine access.
Guy
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