Re: xconsole problem

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- 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/xconsole|

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 it world
readable.

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