no more PTY left

[Noam Meltzer]

Hi!
I have this wierd problem.
I have my "npty" kernel paramater set to 2000 ( a fiction no. that should support all my users)
now, i got to this situation where users can't "rsh/remsh" to my HP machine because they get the message that there's no more open PTY left (or something like that, can't remember the exact message) but they CAN telnet to it, and login successfully.
Any one knows why?


Noam

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You don't metion your OS level. but I'm going to assume it is HPUX 11, as this is a normal problem. With the introduction of HPUX 11, a new parameter called 'nstrtel' was included. To fix your problem the best method is to have 'npty' 'nstrpty' and nstrtel the same value in the kernel.

e.g
npty 2000
nstrpty 2000
nstrtel 2000

Once you have re-generated your kernel and rebooted your system, run the following commands which will create the pseudo ptys required.

# cd /dev
# insf ???d pty ???s 1024 ???e ???v
# insf ???d ptm ???s 1024 ???e ???v
# insf -d telm ???s 1024 ???e ???v
# insf -d tels ???s 1024 ???e -v

HTH
Michael

[harry d brown jr]

As Michael said you need to create the device files. Follow his advice.

live free or die
harry

[Kevin O'Donovan]

Hi,

just to answer your question about why they can telnet and not rsh/remsh/rlogin, telnet uses tty whereas the remote commands use pty.

Not much help on the actual problem itself though!

regards,
Kevin.

[Noam Meltzer]

hi!
i tried what is suggested here, but it did not work.
i am quite clueless on this one.

any1?

[Martin Johnson]

Have you installed the latest patches?

[Shannon Petry]

I have seen this problem too installing older versions of Spacetech Software's Spaceball drivers.
If you have dont this, let me know because I have the bandaid.

Regards,
Shannon

[Noam Meltzer]

its hpux 11.11 with the March02 support plus. i did not receive yet, the june patches.
but, i tend to believe its not patches, so please spare this from me, i'm giving this BOFH excuses to my users too.

about the other software, i did not install it, and to the matter of fact i don't even know it.

Noam

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Noam,

It would be a big help if we knew the exact msg.
Can you remsh to it & report the msg?

Rgds,
Jeff

[Noam Meltzer]

hi!
the problem is now solved.
after speaking with HP support (serveral times) on the phone, we tried at the end to run:
"insf -e"
to recreate all device files.
it created a lot of new device files.
I wished i knew to put the finger on the exact thing that was missing, but i just can't.

Noam