[SunHELP] /dev/pts problem

Wolfgang Engelien sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Mar 2 18:41:11 CST 2001


I had this problem sometime ago, until someone on
this list suggested to put following settings into
/etc/system

set pt_cnt=1024
set npty=1024

To whoever suggested that -- Thanks again for your help !!!
>Hello all,
>
>Does anyone knows why sometimes users receiving
>error "Unable to get pty" when they are trying  
>remotely login into server.
>
>The server is running Solaris 7.
>Within "/etc/system" we have line
>" set pt_cnt = 512 ". Also if I do 
>"ls -al /dev/pts | wc"  I'm getting
>exactly 512. 
>
>Permission on /usr/lib/pt_chmod is 4111. 
>
>And if I count "pts/N" thru command "who"
>usually it's way below 512.
>
>
>Any suggestions is greatly appreciated!
>
>Regards,
>Ed
>
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