On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Bill Hogan wrote: > (1) no messages appear in user gonzo's xconsole window unless root > issues a > kill -HUP `cat /var/syslog.pid`
syslogd will stop sending things to a named pipe if the pipe fills up. I believe the pipe size under Linux to be 8k. If you start xconsole up soon enough after booting, you won't have a problem. > (2) possibly as a consequence of (1), gonzo *owns* /dev/console > after he quits X (on my setup /dev/console is a link to /dev/tty0). Since /dev/console is a symbolic link, its permissions and owners are irrelevant. The permissions and owner of /dev/tty0, what /dev/console points to, are what determine access. Guy
