>
>I think you need a kernel compiled with "options UCONSOLE" in your config
>for xconsole to work.
>
>Jon

Unfortunately, I do not have enough disk space on my 3/60 to do a kernel re-
compile, so this isn't an option for me :-( .  I really would like to do this,
as the missing shared memory support also annoys me....

Instead, I took the xconsole sources from the X11R6 distribution and looked
a bit into them.  The problem seems to be the way xconsole checks if it has
access to /dev/console:

- xconsole's *REAL* user id must be equal to the owner's id of /dev/console
- xconsole checks /dev/console's permissions with the access() function.  This
  function also uses the real user id...

I solved the first item by changing the getuid() call to geteuid(), removed the
second check and chmod'ed xconsole to 4755.  This works now for me...

Alfred Arnold

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