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On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Daniela wrote:

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> I can't allocate new pty's, no matter what I do.

[...]

> > > Xterm says that I don't have enough ptys. How do I make more?

Umm... this is on 4.x, right?  Have you tried making more pty device
nodes?  Thus:

  # cd /dev
  # sh MAKEDEV pty1           # 32 more nodes...
  # sh MAKEDEV pty2           # another 32 nodes...
  # sh MAKEDEV pty3           # etc...

   $.02,
   /Mikko