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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: No pty's available... Date: 23 Sep 92 06:37:52 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 26 Message-ID: <veit.717230272@du9ds3> References: <19njobINN94l@uwm.edu> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de In <19njobINN94l@uwm.edu> einar@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Einar Bergsson) writes: > I am having problems logging on to my 386bsd system, remotely. It is >giving me an error on the term I am logging in from, something like >telnetd: No pty's availabel....Or something to that effect. (Can try it >system name is gopher.lib.uwm.edu.) Does anyone have a clue about what is >going on here? This happened after I successfully mounted another system on >to 386bsd system. (I ran nfsd, mountd, and portmap) >Any thoughts on this would be appresiated.... >Thanks... > -Einar- >-- > -Einar- You have to increase the number of pty/tty pseudodevices in the kernel. This is a line in the config file for your kernel. Then you have to rebuild the kernel. The standard kernel has only 4 pty's configured. Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"