>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:44:17 -0700 (PDT)
>From: daniel@synchrods.synchrods.COM (Daniel Senderowicz)
>
>>xconsole has to be run as root.
>
>How do you do that? I chmod 4555 to /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole as
>entropy suggested. xconsole keeps coming back the the message
>'couldn't open console'. I'm puzzled because 'xterm -C' doesn't
>seem to have any problems in opening the console.

Sorry, I forgot xconsole isn't owned by root in the distribution.  So
you must chown it to root, then chmod 4555.

Alternatively, you can add "options UCONSOLE" to your kernel config,
and recompile.

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entropy