Hi Hubert,

you wrote in <9602051655.ZM5661@rrzc1a>:
> This reminds me, on the weekend i have tried running xconsole, and it
> did *not* work, ...

This NetBSD-amiga specific problem because it works fine with NetBSD-i386.

> Any clue?

I found two sollutions:

1.) Use "su" to login as "root" and start "xconsole" manually.
2.) Use this "replacement" in your ".xinitrc":

xterm -geometry 80x9+0+0 -font 6x13bold -title xconsole -e tail -f /var/log/messages &

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Matthias Scheler
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