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- From: dick@ahold.nl (Dick Heijne)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: xterm: no available ptys
- Keywords: xterm,pty
- Message-ID: <3677@ahds.ahold.nl>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 11:37:56 GMT
- References: <1e0l6qINNi05@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Nov15.211720.21888@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.211720.21888@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
- > In article <1e0l6qINNi05@transfer.stratus.com>, dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
- >
- > > When I try to invoke xterm from a non-root UID, it fails with the
- > > error message: "xterm: no available ptys". Works fine from root.
- > > Any ideas as to where I should be looking?
- >
- > As with most things that work from root but not as mortals, it's
- > probably a permissions problem. In this case, most likely the
- > permissions on the pty devices in /dev are set wrong.
-
- Don't think so.
- I lost the orginal message, so have no idea about your platform, but I
- would vote for a too small kernel config parm of NPTY (or something
- similar - see manual). Together with that, be sure to have enough
- ttyvxxx or pttyxxx (depending on platform) devices configured in /dev.
- Usually, the tool that configures NPTY re-mknod's those as well.
-
- Dick.
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