Rainer Doemer writes:

>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.   :-(

     I've gotten it to work on NetBSD 1.1 for i386. You need to set the
setuid flag on /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm. (as root, do a "chmod u+s" on it, I
think.) Or you can use xconsole; but I prefer to use an xterm.

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