Re: strange rvxt behaviour
On 16 Jan, bn711@freenet.carleton.ca wrote:
> On 15 Jan, Tim@infoave.net wrote:
>> I just upgraded to hamm and am having a peculiar problem: when I am in
>> X as a user and I su to root in an rxvt terminal window, I am no loger
>> able to open any rxvt terminal as a user. I get an error saying that
>> rxvt cannot connect to a pseudo tty. This does not happen with xterm
>> and if I log out as root everything works fine again.
>>
>> What is causing this??
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>
> I had this same problem after I moved my system to a different hard
> drive. The problem has to do with the /dev/pty* devices.
>
> Try "cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV" as root... this spat out a few error messages
> for symlinked devices (/dev/cdrom, /dev/modem, /dev/mouse) but it fixed
> the problems with rxvt.
thanks David - that fixed it (actually I did MAKEDEV pt*)
c ya
Tim
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