>>>>> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> rxvt Peter> rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt: aborting This could be a problem of running out of pseudo tty's which is a limited ressource. However, I do not remember seeing such a thing on any singleuser computer (ie. in most ordinary conditions; it takes more than a few users to use up the defaults). Are you running a server with lot of users or do you create extraordinary many sessions (xterms/rxvt/login/rsh)? Each session takes a tty, so most X sessions takes quite a lot, though I personally never had problems. However, if a rogue script is executing rsh's or rxvt's in an infinite loop, you will of course run dry at some point. Peter> I get this error under a non-root account, and then 10 minutes Peter> later the command works again. Certainly sounds like `to few ressources with too many consumers'. Try doing a `who' command. I believe that lists all allocated ttys. I do not know how to enlarge the number of tty's on a linux box, but there is undoubtedly a guru on this list that knows. Peter> xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry. Somewhat strange. The xterm terminal definition definitely is in the standard database. Perhaps your environment is pointing to something non-standard. Check for settings of the TERMCAP or TERMINFO environment variables, and unset them if present. You can also try to check the directory: /usr/lib/terminfo/x which should contain a file named `xterm'. If that is present, the database should be ok, I guess. On my system, that directory looks like: x10term x820 xerox820 xterm-color xterms-sun x1700 xenix xl83 xterm-nic x1700-lm xerox xtalk xterm-pcolor x1720 xerox-lm xterm xterm-sun x1750 xerox1720 xterm-bold xterms If you get really desparate, it is a rather small thing to install a new xterm terminfo entry (though you probably want to find out what is going on). You can even have a personal ~/.terminfo directory, complementing the system entries, which just is yet another thing that shows how wonderfull a UNIX system linux really is. ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .