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From: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com>
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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