You either need to make xconsole setuid root, or set permissions on
/dev/console to allow rw access to everyone.

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Steven Huwig wrote:

> In my attempts in bringing up pppd, I have noticed something very, very,
> annoying. Though I have a perfectly good xconsole window running, the error
> messages still ignore it and blast all my other windows. Is there something
> that I haven't set up correctly? Constantly typing xrefresh gets annoying.
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> 

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