[SunHELP] Increasing number of slave pseudo-terminals (pts)

DAUBIGNE Sebastien - BOR sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Aug 1 10:04:30 CDT 2001


Today we couldn't login with each pseudo-terminal based services (telnet,
rlogin, remsh,  X).
The login process died with the following message :  "telnetd: open
/dev/ptmx: No such device"
I suspected there was no more slave pseudo-terminals available, and this was
true, as the following message was printed when i tried to launch xterm from
the console :
"xterm: no available ptys".

I have 48 pts in /dev/pts.
My question is : Is there any kernel parameter or something to increase this
number ?

I'm running Solaris 2.5.1.

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Sebastien DAUBIGNE 
sebastien.daubigne at sema.fr - 05.57.26.56.36
Sema Global Services - AFM/DW/Pessac



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