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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!phoenix!gpw10 From: gpw10@phoenixcd.amdahl.com (Gary Ward) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Open xterm Message-ID: <672s02IJ1eYc01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 18 Aug 92 04:46:24 GMT References: <IeX81Ee00WB8R3NEp6@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 28 In article <IeX81Ee00WB8R3NEp6@andrew.cmu.edu>, tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tao Jiang) writes: > Hi, can somebody tell me how I can open more than two xterms? > > I tried to open the third xterm today, but it complained as: > xterm: no available ptys > > Thanx in advance! This is a limit compiled into the distribution kernel. In the GENERICISA file (/sys/i386/conf/GENERICISA, or whatever you call your configuration file) change the line: psuedo-device pty 4 to psuedo-device pty and then rebuild the kernel. I have had more than a dozen xterms up at once after this fix. -- +------------------------+---------------------------+ | Gary Ward | Amdahl Corporation | | gpw10@cd.amdahl.com | 1250 East Arques Avenue | | Phone : (408)746-8865 | P.O. Box 3470 M/S 142 | | | Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3470 | +------------------------+---------------------------+