I ended up cding to /dev and doing MAKEDEV pty and everything works fine now.
~Sam On 12 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > Well, here are the permissions for /dev/ptyXX > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 176 Mar 8 19:39 /dev/ptya0 > > I don't think that it should be a path issue. > > marshal > > >>>>> "sam" == sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As a matter of fact I have recently recompiled my kernel but > > both Eterm and wterm work normally as root. > > > ~Sam > > > On 12 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > >> >>>>> "sam" == sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > I recently installed both wterm and eterm and I get the > > >> following error when I try to run either of them: > >> > >> > resnet:~$ wterm wterm: can't open pseudo-tty wterm: aborting > >> > >> > resnet:~$ Eterm Eterm: Can't open pseudo-tty -- No such file > >> or > directory Eterm: aborting > >> > >> > Both run normally as root. Is this a path issue? permissions > >> > issue? > >> > >> On a hunch, check whether you have /dev/ptyXX. Have you > >> recently recompiled your kernel? If so, did you make say yes > >> to having UNIX ptys? > >> > >> Not sure if this will help... > >> > >> Marshal > >> > >> > ~Sam > >> > >> > >> > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >> > >> > >> > > > >
