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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Is there some limit in BL 3.5 on how many rxvt terms can be open
> simultaneously? I ask because I currently have 9 open, but if I try to
> open a 10th one, it aborts almost immediately. If I close one of the
> running rxvt's, then I can open a new one. What is the source of this
> behavior? Is there supposed to be this type of limit in BL 3.5? I've not
> seen this behavior before. If it will not be possible to have more than 9
> rxvt's open, I'll have to install screen. Further input on this will be
> appreciated.

ls /dev/ptyp?
ls /dev/ttyp?

This will probably list numbers 0 through 8 (1 through 9?).
You probably need to make ptyp9 and ttyp9 etc.

You can run a script from Slackware to make ALL the devs or mknod to make 
one at a time.

ls -l ptyp? will show you whether this is a block or character device.
(b or c listed at the beginning of the line)

mknod ptyp10 b 3 17  - (if ptyp9 were b 3 16)
- hypothetical example only!!!

rxvt uses pairs of these "pseudoterminals".  To get rxvt to work as user I 
had to chmod o+x all of them.  If I did just the first one, only one rxvt 
would work. If I did not exit properly, the one(s) I was using would 
change permissions on reboot.  (I think you found some fix for that 
recently but I just chmod o+x ?typ? in rc).

I had to make more /dev/hda* devices when I switched to one drive with 
lots of partitions on it.  And a device for my 5.25" floppy drive.
And lucent modem, and svgalib, and USB PDA....
Steven only included the more common devices in BL3.

Sindi

> Thanks,
> James