reboot necessary after creating PTYs?

From: Andreas Heckwolf <aheckwol_at_comptel.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:12:34 +0200

Hi,

I've got a strange problem with expect and PTYs on 4.0C. Expect reported not
enough PTYs when I tried to spawn a process. The error message remained even
after creating many more PTYs. If a user that belongs to the group system is
doing exactly the same, it works. So what's wrong here, what did I miss ?

Thanks in advance,

Andreas


$ id
uid=3001(mds) gid=600(mds)
$ expect
expect1.1> spawn ftp
spawn ftp
The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more.
    while executing
"spawn ftp"
------------
$ id
uid=3001(mds) gid=600(mds) groups=0(system)
$ expect
 expect
expect1.1> spawn ftp
spawn ftp
25397
expect1.2>

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Received on Thu Feb 25 1999 - 09:19:23 NZDT