Re: xconsole has vanished!
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:32:29PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
> > Yesterday I updated my XFree86 packages, and now the iconized xconsole
> > window that used to appear when starting fvwm is gone. If I log on as root,
> > it's there but as a regular user it's not.
> >
> > What happened?
>
> I'm guessing, but there was some discussion a while back that allowing
> all users to view the output of /dev/xconsole was not a good idea.
> Perhaps the configuration was thusly changed? Anyway, to fix add
> yourself to the group adm (adduser <yourname> adm), logout and login,
> add a line in ~/.xession to start xconsole.
> --
I am in the adm group and I still get "couldn't open console".
Is that related to the /dev/console -> tty0? Can I simply delete /dev/console and MAKEDEV /dev/console without any complications?
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