>Oh yeah, I noticed xconsole not working too... or at least it doesn't 
>work as non-root. I have options UCONSOLE in my kernel config, and 
>according to options(4), it's supposed to allow anyone to grab the 
>console output, not just root. So why do I have to su before running 
>xconsole (or xterm -c)? It works properly on my NetBSD/i386 system, but 
>not on the mac68k.

I *think* that part of the problem relates to the /etc/syslog.conf 
settings and how you start X.  If syslog.conf directs messages to user 
"root" and you start X manually by first loging into root, you'll get 
messages plastered on the bottom of the physical screen and will as any 
xterm window.  I believe I fixed this on my system by changing the 
syslog.conf parameters. If you have your system configured to 
automatically start X on boot, then I don't think you'll see the messages 
on the bottom of the physical screen since there's no user "root" running 
on that screen, but you may get them in all your windows depending on the 
syslog.conf setup.  I don't think I was ever able to get the "-c" option 
to work, but when I was first setting this up it was on a 1.0-ish system.

-bob