Rainer Doemer wrote
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I wonder how to make messages visible under X, which are usually
> written to the console. For example talk-requests are "displayed"
> only in the background, when I run a X session.
> At work on my Sun these messages are displayed nicely in one
> xterm, which is called with the -C option. Unfortunately this
> option doesn't work unter NetBSD on my Amiga.   :-(
> 
> The man-page to xterm mentions, that this in not supported
> by all systems. Is NetBSD one of these poor systems?
> If not, how do I make the current user owner of /dev/console
> and give him read and write permission, as described by the
> manual page? Of course, this should be done automatically
> (eg. by xinit) and without security problems!
> 
> BTW, I am using NetBSD1.1 (I'll upgrade next week to 1.2)
> on an Amiga 3000.
> 
> Any help appreciated,
> 
> Rainer.
> 

Just run xconsole which comes with X-Windows :)

tschuess
Berndt
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