At 18:50 7/4/96, Don Woodward Jr. wrote:
>I have this same problem and xconsole did not help.

That's because the person logging in needs to be the owner of console for
that to work - and unless you log in as root (tut tut) that's not normally
the case.

The way round that I think is to let X run your logins too (not being a
hardened unix bod, I forget the name of the X prog that does this!) and on
login, let it chown console to $USER or whatever for that session, then
Xconsole works. Is it xdm? Wish I could remember these things...

Otherwise, I run a small windowed "xterm -C" (I think), which should
redirect console messages to that window. Cos otherwise, as I found,
console message appear anyway, and corrupt my display...!

Somehow, using xterm -C, it now seems to work, though it didn't always.
*sigh*

Fun, huh?

if it's only you using the machine, see what happens if you chown teh
console to yourself ;-) (lemme guess, way bad idea?)

John.

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