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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sunic!corax.udac.uu.se!astro.uu.se!goran From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: No available ptys Date: 26 Oct 1992 13:23:38 GMT Organization: Uppsala University Lines: 29 Sender: goran@solaris.astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1cgrgrINNc99@corax.udac.uu.se> References: <BwLp5x.KD3@ssesco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: solaris.astro.uu.se In article <BwLp5x.KD3@ssesco.com>, cwc@ssesco.com (Craig W. Carlson) writes: |> 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? |> In the kernel config file there is a line that probably reads: pseudo-device pty 4 Change the 4 to something more realistic, like 16, and recompile the kernel. Then goto /dev and do sh MAKEDEV pty0 (or something like that). -- Goran ------------------------------+--------------------------------- Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se Astronomiska Observatoriet | Uppsala Universitet | S-751 20 SWEDEN | ------------------------------+---------------------------------