On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:04:09AM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Looks like I might need "kern.securelevel = -1" as well.

Nope.

> NetBSD 1.6.1 system:
> 
> toad# ls -l /dev/console
> crw-------  1 rmk  tty  0, 0 Jan  4 00:34 /dev/console

> NetBSD-current system:
> 
> roothog# ls -l /dev/console
> crw-------  1 root  wheel  0, 0 Jan  4 00:56 /dev/console

Just chown it and try again. You either need to be root or owner of
/dev/console for the TIOCCONS ioctl to work. There are various ways you
can automate this, depending on how you login to your system.

Martin