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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Why doesn't xterm -C work?
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.225825.5760@eye.com>
Date: 17 Feb 91 22:58:25 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.220545.12333@sat.com>
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc., Ithaca, NY
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In article <1991Feb16.220545.12333@sat.com> lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair) writes:
>System: 9000/3XX
>O/S:    7.0
>
>According to the HP documentation, the "-C" option to xterm and hpterm
>should grab output to /dev/console, but the option does not appear to
>work, even if I start the window as root.  What do I need to do to make
>this work?

My guess is that you don't have a /usr/lib/X11/Xconsoles file.  This little
gem, which may be mentioned in the hp docs (but I've never found it), tells
the server who can receive console output and who can't.  If the file isn't
there nobody gets console output.  Create the file and put a * as the first and
only character, and you should be ok.
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Paul B. Booth  (paul@eye.com) (...!hplabs!hpfcla!eye!paul)
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