Re: [Fwd: qmail]

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de>]

"Davinder Pal Singh \(STEP\)" <singh@fokus.gmd.de> writes:

> Hello Friends,
> I am pretty new to Debian Linux. I have installed Debian 1.3.xx on a
> 100 Mhz Pentium PC.
> But I am unable to start openwindow. I have installed the olvwm
> *.deb package with the help of dpkg and xserver etc. before
> that. But somehow I am not able to start openwin. The message I get
> is
> 
> xterm: no available ptys.
> 
> My question is do I have to insatll ptys. If yes then where do fidnd
> the (which package).  I will thankful if someone could help.

ptys are devices located in the /dev directory.  The easiest way to
install them is to cd to /dev and run

        ./MAKEDEV ptys

Hopefully the error message will go away after this,

        Torsten

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