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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!umn.edu!uum1!salsa.ssesco.com!ssesco.com!cwc From: cwc@ssesco.com (Craig W. Carlson) Subject: No available ptys Message-ID: <BwLp5x.KD3@ssesco.com> Sender: news@ssesco.com Organization: SSESCO Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 00:53:56 GMT Lines: 19 I am running XFree86 1.1 on 386BSD with the patch-kit installed. Everything is working great, except I can only bring up 4 xterms, and when I try to start the 5th, I get the message: "xterm: no available ptys" This happens consistently, and there are definitely more than 4 pty's defined in my /dev directory. Has anyone else see this? Am I missing something obvious here? (BTW: My kernel is configured for 10 users, but I don't believe this has anything to do with the number of pty's you can create for a single user anyway.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Craig W. Carlson cwc@ssesco.com SSESCO (612) 342-0003 511 11th Ave. S. Suite 268 Minneapolis, MN 55415