From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 9:35:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from almazs.pacex.net (almazs.pacex.net [204.1.219.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB27B14D80 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:35:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danielb@almazs.pacex.net) Received: from localhost (danielb@localhost) by almazs.pacex.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA04439 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:35:24 -0700 (PDT) From: daniel B To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SSH fails to allocate pty Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi; I just installed shh-1.2.6 on a 3.2-RELEASE machine and it was working fine until yesterday when I started getting the error message: frank sshd[4184]: error: openpty: no such file or directory frank sshd[4192]: error: Failed to allocate pty. This happens when I try to connect to the machine frank through ssh and I see the following error on the machine that's trying to connect to frank: warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. and the machine terminal is locked / hangup and won't release the screen even with a "^C" kill. Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message