Re: out of ptys

1999-03-24 Thread Kevin Dalley
"J.H.M. Dassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:51:53 -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > rlogind: Out of ptys. > > rlogind cannot allocate a pseudo-terminal, which is necessary for an > interactive terminal session like "rlogin". > > This can e.g. happen if you've switched to g

Re: out of ptys

1999-03-24 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
pty (pseudo terminal?) are linux devices defined in some quantity compiling the kernel. If you find this a problem then you do have to recompile the kernel increasing this amount. They are used when a program needs a device where to write to and read from, but this shoudn't be a real terminal. A r

Re: out of ptys

1999-03-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:51:53 -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > rlogind: Out of ptys. rlogind cannot allocate a pseudo-terminal, which is necessary for an interactive terminal session like "rlogin". This can e.g. happen if you've switched to glibc2.1, run a 2.2.x kernel compiled with UNIX98 support, b