Dear Managers,
Since the summary was posted there have been two further developments:
(Original post)
1) The rusers command is showing many pseudo-terminals in use on the
various machines on my LAN that belong to root and my user account
when I know I am logged out of the machine in question. In some cases
I logged out of the CDE Workspace Manager (sometimes without logging
out of terminal windows since I wanted them to come back up upon
relogin) and in some cases I logged out of a telnet session. Should I
worry about the pseudo-terminals or is this just a problem with
rusers? If I am running out of pseudo-terminals, how do I make them
free again?
(Update)
Digital Support finally got back to me (an e-mail message went astray). This apparently is a genuine bug in the rusers command and a patch is promised (ETA one month). rusers simply fails to update its records when someone logs out. I'm doing this as a temporary workaround:
rusers <options> | grep "("
(Only active logins seem to have a ( in front of the display or remote system).
Items 2 & 3 from the original post have received no comment.
(Original post)
4) Yesterday after a long session that involved a lot of graphics, I
started getting messages that "colormap entries couldn't be
allocated". Since many of the entries were probably allocated by long
terminated programs, is there any easy way to clean the colormap up?
Logging out and back in does it, but surely there's an easier way.
(Update)
Response received:
David Warren <warren_at_atmos.washington.edu>
David suggests that either netscape or xv is consuming the colormap entries without freeing them. I had used both extensively under DU 3.2c, 3.2, and 3.0 without seeing this, but maybe I just never tickled the bug before.
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
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Received on Thu Aug 08 1996 - 21:11:21 NZST