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Conference unxa::cde

Title:	CDE on Digital UNIXonment - CDE
Notice:	CDE on Digital UNIX - for CDE on VMS, please see Note 1.3
Moderator:	UNXA::SYSTEM

Created:	Tue Nov 23 1993
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	660
Total number of notes:	2674

599.0. "How to reenable xterm?" by NYOSS1::CHEN () Wed Feb 05 1997 17:28

    I did two things to replace dtterm with xterm under V4.0. After
    that I can't get xterm working. When I tried to run xterm I got
    the messge saying: "xterm: no available ptys". Here is what I
    have done:
    
    >su
    >cd /usr/dt/bin
    >mv dtterm dtterm.sav
    >ln -s /usr/bin/X11/xterm dtterm
    
    I also moved out my local .Xauthority file but don't remember it was
    done before or after.
    
    There is no error in .dt/errorlog file.
    
    Can anybody tell me what I did wrong?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Frank

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
599.1	Ptys -	ALFAXP::RETTERER	`Wed Feb 05 1997 18:41`	16
	Hi Frank, I just went thru this yesterday. Check the file ownership and protections on /usr/bin/X11/xterm It should have the following protections: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 221184 Nov 16 04:02 /usr/bin/X11/xterm Note the suid bit. Hope this helps. Rick Retterer Workstation/Graphics Support
599.2	It works!	NYOSS1::CHEN	`Thu Feb 06 1997 10:34`	4
	Rick I chowned /usr/bin/X11/xterm from bin to root. It works. Thanks.
599.3		ALFAXP::RETTERER	`Thu Feb 06 1997 16:40`	2
	Cool!