Re: Short question: No Available PTYs
It probably means you've run out (or don't have) Unix98 ptys - most things
don't allow for backwards compatibility (but Eterm (www.eterm.org) does *plug plug*)
:)
To have Unix98 ptys you need to run kernel 2.2 and have them turned on in the kernel
config (under Character Devices, I believe)
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:04:13AM -0500, Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
> Short question:
>
> I've got a slink and a potato machine on a network. The potato machine
> will often complain of "No Available PTYs" and refuse a telnet
> connection or to start an xterm (though it will start an rxvt -- dunno
> why). I don't know what PTY's -- pseudo terminals I guess -- are all
> about, so I don't really know how to go about diagnosing this problem.
> Any clues or hints would be appreciated.
>
> I'm posting this to devel because it's potato that seems to have the
> problem.
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