[ale] Problems with xterm & rxvt

[Zhongbin Yu " <z.yu at premcall.com>]

you need to enable PTY support (unix98 PTY) in the kernel. As far as I
recall, there's two place in the xconfig you need to click, one at
character device sub menu, one at file system.
starts a while back, xterm,ssh starts to need PTY (pseudo TTY).

Jerry Yu
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Jeffrey B Layton wrote:

#Hello,
#
#   I'm having trouble with xterm and rxvt. I've tried running
#them with a variety of window managers (icewm, fvwm2, etc)
#and they always either refuse to start or flash a window up.
#The errors are:
#
#xterm: no available ptys
#
#rxvt: can't open slave tty (null)
#Usage:    -a <slave-device-name> <host>
#                -d <slave-device-name>
#
#Anybody have any clues?
#
#   A little background may be useful. It's a Redhat 6.0 box.
#128 Megs of memory, Matrox Mystique card with appropriate
#X server (it worked before), dual booting Win98 and Redhat
#(I'll pause here for the whistles and cat calls to die down).
#I recently upgraded my hard drives. Prior to upgrading they
#looked like:
#
#/dev/hda1: Win98  (mounted as /mnt/cdrive)
#/dev/hdb1: Win98  (mounted as /mnt/ddrive)
#/dev/sda1: swap
#/dev/sda5: /
#/dev/sdb1: /home1
#
#I then replaced hda with a new drive and moved some stuff
#around. The new configuration looks like:
#
#/dev/hda1: Win98 (mounted as /mnt/cdrive)
#/dev/hda5: /home
#/dev/hdb1: Win98 (mounted as /mnt/ddrive)
#/dev/sda1: swap
#/dev/sda5: /
#/dev/sdb1: /usr/local
#
#I got rid of /home1 and moved /home from /dev/sda5 to
#/dev/hda5 (larger partition). I also moved /usr/local from
#/dev/sda5 to /dev/sdb1 (more space for / and for /usr/local).
#I moved everything manually (cp, mv, etc) and used linuxconf
#to handle the mods to fstab (is it just me or is linuxconf
#kind of a pain to use?).
#
#   TIA,
#
#Jeff Layton
#
#Lockheed-Martin Aeronautical Systems
#Marietta GA
#
#jeffrey.b.layton at lmco.com
#