The system has no more ptys

From: <choonpheng_at_tdb.gov.sg>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:46:09 +0800

Hi,

While running an expect program by the user, the user is faced iwth the
following error:

>>spawn ftp cactus
The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more.
    while executing
"spawn ftp cactus"
    (file "fileinit.ksh" line 12)

However, if the same program is run by root, the error did not appear.

The question is
1) Why am I getting the error message by the users and not by root.
2) How to increase the ptys.

Regards
Received on Mon Dec 28 1998 - 12:01:39 NZDT