Subject: Re: xconsole
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: None <mw@eunet.ch>
List: amiga-x
Date: 11/30/1994 15:01:58
> has anybody been able to use "xconsole" with NetBSD ?
> If I run it as a normal user it just says "can't open /dev/console".
> w"su" to "root" is the only to start it, making it setuid doesn't help.
> 
> "xterm -C" does not work, too.

#ifdef out the code that checks whether fstat(console).st_uid == getuid(),
which is not true for netbsd.

-Markus
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