From: Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T (Gary.Burke at domain guinness.com)
Date: Tue 04 Jul 2000 - 15:05:29 IST
Try using xconsole
Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Askins [SMTP:paul.askins at domain analog.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] /dev/console, simple question maybe
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting my consle output to display in X. I've
> ran an
> xterm -C to intercept console messages but it doesn't work.
> /dev/console has the following permissions:
> crw------- jock.jock
> jock being my user name. Originally console was owned by root so I did a
> chown
> to see if it would work, it didn't. Also, I login at the console using
> the
> first screen as I thought the login name there should take ownership of
> /dev/console.
> I'm using Mandrake 7.0, 2.2.14 smp kernel (I think), if that counts.
>
> Any suggestions as to what I could do would be great, I've been doing some
> searching on google and found reference to similar problems in the kernel
> mail
> list archive (among others), but no solution.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul.
>
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