On 15 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- David Huggins-Daines [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
