> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:32:29PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > > Yesterday I updated my XFree86 packages, and now the iconized xconsole > > window that used to appear when starting fvwm is gone. If I log on as root, > > it's there but as a regular user it's not. > > > > What happened? > > I'm guessing, but there was some discussion a while back that allowing > all users to view the output of /dev/xconsole was not a good idea. > Perhaps the configuration was thusly changed? Anyway, to fix add > yourself to the group adm (adduser <yourname> adm), logout and login, > add a line in ~/.xession to start xconsole. > --
I am in the adm group and I still get "couldn't open console". Is that related to the /dev/console -> tty0? Can I simply delete /dev/console and MAKEDEV /dev/console without any complications?
