[wplug] (no subject)

[Adam Cecchetti]

I have the default 256, and there were no xterms running at the time I
encountered this error.

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org]On Behalf Of
Robert Dale
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:46 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] (no subject)


On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Adam Cecchetti wrote:

> I was presented with a rather odd request by my os this afternoon. It said
> that there were not enough ptys and that i should contact my system
> adminstrator to make more. Being that I'm the system admin the left me
> somewhat confused. I never heard of creating more ptys and i was wondering
> if anyone had been presented with such a request before, and if so how i
> should go about creating more of them. Thanks for any info that can be
> shead.

What does `ls /dev/pty* | wc` give you?

Are you running an extraordinary amount of xterms?

The kernel default (atleast for 2.4 kernels) is 256.

--
Robert Dale

wplug member since 1998


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