Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:49:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pseudoterminals increase: compilation error Message-ID: <355179.86182.qm@web57003.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080719120434.GK62764@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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--- On Sat, 7/19/08, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> > Subject: Re: Pseudoterminals increase: compilation error > To: "Unga" <unga888@yahoo.com> > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 8:04 PM > On 2008-Jul-18 18:38:36 -0700, Unga > <unga888@yahoo.com> wrote: > >As per FAQ, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html, > I tried to increase the number of ptys: > > "10.19.1 > > Build and install a new kernel with the line in the > > configuration file: > > device pty N > > where N is the number of requested > pseudoterminals." > > That has been obsolete for a while. Do you actually have a > problem > with insufficient PTYs? > Looks like, may not be. The Problem: expect -c "spawn ls" spawn ls The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more. while executing "spawn ls" It now seems to be a permission problem as explained in http://expect.nist.gov/FAQ.html#q67 . Still investigating. Any help will be very much appreciated. Unga
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