winslett@widor.cs.unc.edu (Michael Winslett) (06/26/91)
Under Ultrix 4.1, I could set the permissions on /dev/xcons to 666 (everone can read and write) and they would stay that way. Under Ultrix 4.2, /dev/xcons seems to be automatically set back to permissions 622 (owner read/write, others only write) after the current user logs out. When this happens, the next user to log in is not able to read from /dev/xcons and redirect console output to a window. What is resetting these permissions (my guess is the Xprompter), and is there any way to stop it? Perhaps dxsession resets the permissions correctly, but I don't run DECwindows. I have gotten around this problem by creating a copy of /dev/xcons called /dev/xconsole. The permissions on this device remain as I set them, and I read console output from there instead of from /dev/xcons. - Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael E. Winslett University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill winslett@cs.unc.edu Department of Computer Science (919) 962-1710 Sitterson Hall #121