shankar@hpclisp.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) (02/17/90)
> In article <2237@ecs.soton.ac.uk> lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr) writes: > >invoking `xterm -C' gives the error message: > > xterm: display "local:0.0" is not authorized to take control of /dev/console > > You must create a file, /usr/lib/X11/Xconsoles, containing a list > of hosts allowed to receive console output. ^^^^^ > > -jem > John Milburn - Advanced Light Source - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory No, that's "seats", not "hosts" (for an hpterm to grab the console, it must be running on the machine whose console it is trying to grab). (Remember, the format of the DISPLAY variable is "host:seat.screen"). For instance, if your DISPLAY is local:1.0, then the "/usr/lib/X11/Xconsoles" file must contain a line as follows: 1 If you want any seat to be able to grab the console, put a "*" for the seat number. Any lines in the file starting with "#" are ignored. For instance, your Xconsoles file (for a multi-seat system) might look like: # List of seats allowed to grab the console # The sysadmin 0 # John Doe 2 Or, it might be a prosaic * (just the one character and the newline). ----- Shankar Unni E-Mail: Hewlett-Packard California Language Lab. Internet: shankar@hpda.hp.com Phone : (408) 447-5797 UUCP: ...!hplabs!hpda!shankar