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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!noc.msc.net!uc.msc.edu!shamash!runyon.cim.cdc.com!pbd From: pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: No pty's available... Message-ID: <47811@shamash.cdc.com> Date: 23 Sep 92 14:26:10 GMT References: <19njobINN94l@uwm.edu> <veit.717230272@du9ds3> Sender: usenet@shamash.cdc.com Organization: ICEM Systems, Inc. Lines: 47 In article <veit.717230272@du9ds3>, veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes: |> 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 I also had the "telnetd: No pty;s available..." problem. Originially I thought that it was due only to too few pty's in the config file, but it turned out that "ls -la /dev/*pty*" resulted in: crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 0 Sep 23 08:13 ptyp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 1 Sep 23 07:14 ptyp1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 5 Sep 17 14:29 ptyp5 crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 6 Sep 11 14:40 ptyp6 crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 7 Sep 11 14:40 ptyp7 crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 8 Sep 11 14:40 ptyp8 crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 9 Sep 11 14:40 ptyp9 crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 10 Sep 11 14:40 ptypa crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 11 Sep 11 14:40 ptypb crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 12 Sep 11 14:40 ptypc crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 13 Sep 11 14:41 ptypd crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 14 Sep 11 14:41 ptype crw-rw-rw- 1 root 6, 15 Sep 11 14:41 ptypf notice that it jumps from ptyp1 to ptyp5... I made devices pty[234] and also increased to 10 ptys in the config file. All is now well! -- #include <std.disclaimer> #define FULL_NAME "Paul Dokas" #define EMAIL "pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com" /* we are realizing infinite possibilities in exchange for our soul */