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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Steven, did you compile a later rxvt for BL3 than the SW4.0 version?
>
> To find out:
> ----------
> rxvt -help
> ----------

Both 2.4.11 as is the Slackware 4.0 version and the Slackware 7.1 version.
Slackware 10.2 uses 2.7.10

BL2 version is XPM, utmp, .Xdefaults (and needs libXpm and ld-linux)
BL3 version is .Xdefaults (needs only libX11 and libc).

Do you have rxvt working for user in BL2?
It still complains about can't open pseudo-tty.

Would XPM or utmp be causing the problem?

I found something online about the pseudoterminal needing to be properly 
registered in the utmp file.  We don't have a /var/log/utmp.  Maybe root 
does not need to be registered but user does?  Like pppd works for user 
only with an /etc/ppp/options but root does not need that.

I really don't understand this.

I could attempt to compile rxvt without XPM and utmp, or keep using xterm 
which does work.

XPM is X pixmap.

Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven

I have two of three computers dialing as user and one working with ssh as 
user.  The third computer wants a /dev/modem and the connect script (eznet 
up 4) fails even with it.  What am I missing?