SUMMARY: /dev/ptmx missing, but it isn't?

From: Christopher L. Barnard (cbarnard@cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 19 1996 - 13:48:16 CDT


That didn't take long. About an hour ago I asked

> "gargoyle" is a SS20 running Solaris 2.5 with a fair number of
> patches installed. About 20 minutes ago it started not allowing
> people to telnet, ssh, rlogin, etc. to it with the error message
> "/dev/ptmx: No such device".
>
> Well, it does exist:
>
>[...]

The upshot is that this not very useful error message is just trying
to tell me that I'm out of ptys, not that the device doesn't exist.
I've edited my /etc/system file to add the line "set pt_cnt=256",
so the next time I reboot the machine (with a reconfigure, of course)
I'll have 256 ptys instead of the system default 48.

Thanks very much to

vqh@dwrock.dw.lucent.com
"Chad L. Cook" <ccook@bbn.com>
billt@dat.com (Bill Townsley)

and probably several more folks who will respond before this summary
comes out... ;^)

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