Re: xconsole 'can't open console' (etch) - why not?

Krzysztof Luban'ski wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 18:44 +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
>
>> Am trying to run xconsole as normal user as I have done on other
>> versions of debian.
>>
>> When I try to run it on an etch box it pops up as expected but with the
>> message 'Can't open console' in it.
>>
>> Now, on my sarge box, which is due for an upgrade, it runs fine. I
>> noticed on sarge /dev/console's group is tty but on etch it's root. So
>> I changed the group of it to tty, but still no joy. [...]
>>
>
> xconsole seems to be using /dev/xconsole - on my Lenny system, its
> group is set to 'adm'.
>
>

Thanks - that was it. Just added myself to adm group.

Cheers,

Martin

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