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Re: Pseudo-ttys Problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael)
Fri Nov 8 23:15:36 1996

Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 23:21:06 -0600
From: Michael <michaelw@xnet.com>
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Mistake:

The previous list was from my old Slackware partition.  Here is a directory listing from Red Hat 4.0:


 
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  48 Nov  6 22:43 ptys0
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  49 Nov  6 22:43 ptys1
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  50 Nov  6 22:43 ptys2
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  51 Nov  6 22:43 ptys3
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  52 Nov  6 22:43 ptys4
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  53 Nov  6 22:43 ptys5
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  54 Nov  6 22:43 ptys6
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  55 Nov  6 22:43 ptys7
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  56 Nov  6 22:43 ptys8
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  57 Nov  6 22:43 ptys9
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  58 Nov  6 22:43 ptysa
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  59 Nov  6 22:43 ptysb
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  60 Nov  6 22:43 ptysc
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  61 Nov  6 22:43 ptysd
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  62 Nov  6 22:43 ptyse
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        2,  63 Nov  6 22:43 ptysf


------------------
Michael Winkelmann
michaelw@xnet.com


> 
> I just installed Red Hat 4.0 and I am using the Metro-X server.
> 
> When I start X-Windows there are not any pseudo-ttys available to run xterm, color_xterm,
> rvxt, and cmdtool.
> 
> The ptys files in /dev look like
> 
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 176 Jul 17  1994 ptys0
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 177 Jul 17  1994 ptys1
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 178 Jul 17  1994 ptys2
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 179 Jul 17  1994 ptys3
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 180 Jul 17  1994 ptys4
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 181 Jul 17  1994 ptys5
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 182 Jul 17  1994 ptys6
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 183 Jul 17  1994 ptys7
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 184 Jul 17  1994 ptys8
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 185 Jul 17  1994 ptys9
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 186 Jul 17  1994 ptysa
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 187 Jul 17  1994 ptysb
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 188 Jul 17  1994 ptysc
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 189 Jul 17  1994 ptysd
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 190 Jul 17  1994 ptyse
> crw-rw-rw-   1 root     tty        4, 191 Jul 17  1994 ptysf
> 
> Mike Winkelmann
> michaelw@xnet.com
>


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