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From: winslett@widor.cs.unc.edu (Michael Winslett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Question about permissions on /dev/xcons
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Date: 25 Jun 91 21:54:55 GMT
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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
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