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From: gary brant <gbrant@gte.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xterm doesn't work on 2.1.7 but everything else does??
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:02:10 -0600
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Ron Echeverri wrote:
> 
> 
> Have you tried running an xterm as root?  Maybe you didn't install it
> setuid.  Also, do you have 'options     "COMPAT_43"' in your kernel

Click!  So that's how xterm can fix bad permissions on the pty's.
I had been wondering.

> configuration file?
> 
> rone
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