Re: [TCLUG:5645] need more ptys

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

I'm using glibc-2.1.1-1 (redhat 5.2, but I upgraded). Could the upgrade
have caused this? Or is there another kernel option I need to use unix98
pty's with glibc-2.1?

Thanks,

Ben

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Ben Kochie wrote:

> This only applies to Unix 98 PTY support, and you can ony have unix98
> pty's if you have glibc 2.1.. the only shiping distro that I know of that
> has glibc2.1 is debain/potato
> 
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
> 
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> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Peter Lukas wrote:
> 
> > This is a kernel configuration problem.  It is in the make config where
> > you specify howmany ptys you want.  It should default to 256, so something
> > must be wrong with your .config in /usr/src/linux-2.2.7/
> > 
> > Peter Lukas
> > 
> > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Ben Luey wrote:
> > 
> > > Same problem with different servers. This started when I started some
> > > filtering with ipchains, could this be affecting it? It seems to died at
> > > the spawn command, before any network activity though.
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Ben Kochie wrote:
> > > 
> > > > ummmm.. sounds like the remote server has problems
> > > > 
> > > > Thank You,
> > > >         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
> > > > 
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> > > >  "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Ben Luey wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I have a simple expect script to log me into a server, just now when I ran
> > > > > it I got:
> > > > > 
> > > > > [lueyb@pclueyb bin]$ veblen
> > > > > spawn telnet veblen.carleton.edu
> > > > > The system has no more ptys.  Ask your system administrator to create 
> > > > > more.
> > > > >     while executing
> > > > > "spawn telnet veblen.carleton.edu"
> > > > >     (file "/home/lueyb/bin/veblen" line 46)
> > > > > [lueyb@pclueyb bin]$                           
> > > > > 
> > > > > I just recompiled my kernel under 2.2.7 -- what does this mean and what do
> > > > > I do?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ben
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ben Luey
> > > > > lueyb@carleton.edu
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Ben Luey
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