Many thanks (in order of reply) to:
Sean O'Connell
Tyler Hall
both of whom told me exactly what I needed to know (and in under 10 minutes,
let's see ANYONE's support hotline beat that, thanks guys).
The solution as pointed out by Sean and Tyler was to do a 'MAKEDEV PTY_1'
which created many more pty's than I will probably need, but certainly
enough to fix the immediate problem.
The default 'MAKEDEV std' creates pty0 & pty1 devices which wasn't enough.
pty0 - pty21 should suffice.
Again, thanks for the quick responses.
Regards,
Adrian Blount
Apologies for the last incomplete message. Damned windows mail client :/
Anyhow, I've recently taken over from someone else looking after a couple of
Alpha's so am still well and truly learning digital unix/tru64.
This morning was made aware of the following errors, I believe they are PTY
related (i.e. not enough PTY's) but want to be sure before I do a MAKEDEV
pty_n that there's no kernel type stuff I need to change.
The symptoms:
Running a DTTERM gives "unable to set non-blocking on pty"
Telnet to box gives "telnetd: all network ports in use"
The following is the already configured pty's:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 0 Dec 11 1997 ptyp0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 1 Dec 11 1997 ptyp1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 2 Dec 11 1997 ptyp2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 3 Dec 11 1997 ptyp3
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 4 Dec 11 1997 ptyp4
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 5 Dec 11 1997 ptyp5
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 6 Dec 11 1997 ptyp6
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 7 Dec 11 1997 ptyp7
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 8 Dec 11 1997 ptyp8
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 9 Dec 11 1997 ptyp9
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 10 Dec 11 1997 ptypa
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 11 Dec 11 1997 ptypb
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 12 Dec 11 1997 ptypc
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 13 Dec 11 1997 ptypd
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 14 Dec 11 1997 ptype
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 15 Dec 11 1997 ptypf
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 16 Dec 11 1997 ptyq0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 17 Dec 11 1997 ptyq1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 18 Dec 11 1997 ptyq2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 19 Dec 11 1997 ptyq3
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 20 Dec 11 1997 ptyq4
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 21 Dec 11 1997 ptyq5
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 22 Dec 11 1997 ptyq6
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 23 Dec 11 1997 ptyq7
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 24 Dec 11 1997 ptyq8
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 25 Dec 11 1997 ptyq9
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 26 Dec 11 1997 ptyqa
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 27 Dec 11 1997 ptyqb
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 28 Dec 11 1997 ptyqc
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 29 Dec 11 1997 ptyqd
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 30 Dec 11 1997 ptyqe
crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 7, 31 Dec 11 1997 ptyqf
>From the MAKEDEV man page:
Creates groups of pseudoterminal device special files, as follows:
PTY_1
Creates pty0 to pty22.
PTY_2
Creates pty23 to pty45.
PTY_3
Creates pty46 to pty56.
PTY_4
Creates pty57 to pty64.
PTY_5
Creates pty65 to pty72.
PTY_6
Creates pty73 to pty80.
PTY_7
Creates pty81 to pty88.
PTY_8
Creates pty89 to pty96.
PTY_9
Creates pty97 to pty101.
The # specifies the group of pseudoterminal device special files
created.
Questions:
Which pty_n do I do given what I already have? I see no mention of ptyq??
anywhere but I have those devices?
Is there anything else I need to look for here (i.e. kernel params limiting
users etc.)
Kind Regards,
Adrian Blount
Security & Internet Engineer
Solution 6 AlphaWest
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