From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 7:40:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clink.schulte.org (clink.schulte.org [209.134.156.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8D437B405 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:40:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarmap.nospam.schulte.org (tarmap.schulte.org [209.134.156.198]) by clink.schulte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E97243C0; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:40:18 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020402093734.03a03560@pop3s.schulte.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:40:14 -0600 To: dan@slightlystrange.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christopher Schulte Subject: Re: OpenSSH 2.9, FreeBSD 4.5 In-Reply-To: <20020402151820.GA27119@icarus.slightlystrange.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:18 PM 4/2/2002 +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: >The daemon produces these messages in syslog: > >... sshd[$PID]: error: openpty: No such file or directory >... sshd[$PID]: error: Failed to allocate pty. > >I seem to have the full complement of ptys, and all seem to have the >right permissions, ownership and device numbers. I am now truly >baffled. Anyone else seen this and would like to lead this poor >sucker into the light? Please? ;-) Two things have come up that I've seen, which can cause this. 1) all the ptys are in use, or 2) your kernel doesn't actually have pty support built in Do you have something like this in the kernel? Maybe it was accidently commented out: pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message