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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:50:30 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH 2.9, FreeBSD 4.5
Message-ID:  <20020402155030.GB27119@icarus.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020402093734.03a03560@pop3s.schulte.org>
References:  <20020402151820.GA27119@icarus.slightlystrange.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20020402093734.03a03560@pop3s.schulte.org>

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Oops...

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:40:14AM -0600, Christopher Schulte wrote:
> 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)

~BLUSH~ That would be it, then...

Thank you.  I shall now go and remind myself very forcefully to be more
careful next time...

Dan, the embarrassed.  ;-)

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