I've tried to get console messages in my xterm also. Changing the flags in
/etc/ttys didn't help. xterm says "Unable to open console" and xconsole
just opens a window with never any output. I've also tried chmod 666
/dev/console. No luck. 8-(



On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Rainer Doemer wrote:

> 
> Thanks to all who answered!
> 
> > 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.   :-(
> 
> Finally I found the solution to this problem.
> The file "/etc/ttys" was wrong. My file looked like:
> ...
> console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"  vt220   on  secure 
> ttye0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"  vt220   off secure  # custom chips
> ...
> 
> All I had to do was to swap the on and off flags, like:

What's different here??????

> ...
> console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"  vt220   on  secure 
> ttye0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"  vt220   off secure  # custom chips
> ...
> 
> Now login changes the ownership of /dev/console as required by
> "xterm -C" or/and "xconsole". Both work fine now!
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions,
> 
> Rainer.
> 
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