On Tue, 18 Jun 1996 Dan.McMahill@sciatl.com wrote:

> I am having troubles with console windows.  When I try to run xconsole, it says 
> something about can't open console.  If I try xterm -C when logged in as myself,
> it doesn't capture console output.  If I su to root, then start xterm -C, it 
> does capture console output.  I'd like it to work for me so I can put either 
> xconsole or xterm -C in my .xinitrc file.

Make sure that your account has minimally read access to the 
/dev/console.  My solution is to set up xdm's scripts to "chown" 
/dev/console to the login user during login and to "chown" the 
/dev/console back to root after the user logs out.  This way, a user can 
run xconsole to pick up messages. 

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