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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2274 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:51:49 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: Help on XTerm and other problems w/XFree86 1.2 In-Reply-To: conrad@wucs1.wustl.edu's message of Fri, 26 Feb 1993 00:15:08 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Feb25231726@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1993Feb26.001508.11605@wuecl.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 05:17:26 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1993Feb26.001508.11605@wuecl.wustl.edu> conrad@wucs1.wustl.edu (H. Conrad Cunningham) writes: I have just finished installing XFree 1.2 and xview3. I have the lastest patchkit installed and the kernel rebuilt. I have the *real* crypt installed and a working copy of xdm running. And as long as you are the only one on the system and you are at the console everything seems to work just fine. BUT as soon as another user telnets in I ;am unable to start new XTerms. Sounds like you are running out of ptys. The number of ptys is staticly determined in your kernel configuration file (/sys/i386/conf/...). Also finger, w, and who do not show the user on the console. login should log the console, so that's not related to X necesarrily. Xterm only logs users on the ptys it uses. I have noticed that the owner of the device that I use when logging in at the console remains "root" (ex /dev/ttyp2). When users log in from remote sites, they become the owner of that device. Is this a problem? Yes, when you log in, the ownership of the device you are using is changed to yourself. That's for security - you can change the permissions on the devise if you like and permit or deny others from sending or ready data from your line. What is the difference between the pccons driver and the other one. Which one should I be using? codrv is an enhancement in many ways. If you need a better console driver try it. Both work fine for X. Rich