SUMMARY: Problem with rlogind

From: Cheng, Bruce (Bruce.Cheng@aspect.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 1997 - 14:15:46 CST


Hi all,
I got two replies for my questions. I have not try out the solution but
I think I understand what need to be done.

Thanks to:

Ric Anderson [ric@rtd.com]
Kris [hxktb0@svho1nfs_1.supervalu.com]

Here are the replies:

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>From: hxktb0@svho1nfs_1.supervalu.com[SMTP:hxktb0@svho1nfs_1.supervalu.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 1997 4:29 PM
>To: Cheng, Bruce
>Subject: Re: Problem with rlogind
>
>you need to increase the number of pseudo ttys.
>
>Kris
>
>
>
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>From: Ric Anderson[SMTP:ric@rtd.com]
>Sent: Thursday, February 13, 1997 1:00 PM
>To: Cheng, Bruce
>Subject: Re: Problem with rlogind
>
>Bruce:
>You need to run MAKEDEV (I think its in /dev/MAKEDEV, or /dev/.MAKEDEV)
>to create more /dev/tty entries in the PTY group. I think
>the command is
> cd /dev
> ./MAKEDEV pty 3
>0=ttyp, 1=ttyq, 2=ttyr, 3=ttys. That will give you another 16
>pty's. You nay also have to twiddle something in your kernel
>config if the number of pty's there is the default 48, to raise
>that to 64 (or beyond).
>
>Cheers,
>Ric (<ric@rtd.com> "Ric Anderson", using RTD's public internet access)
>
>

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>From: Cheng, Bruce
>Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 1997 1:22 PM
>To: 'sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov'
>Subject: Problem with rlogind
>
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I got the following error when I try to rlogin to a machine (same for
>telnet) :
>
>vobber% rsh sean
>rlogind: /dev/ttys0: No such device or address.
>Connection closed.
>
>All existing connections seems to be working and I was able to restart
>inetd and it appears to works shortly afterward.
>
>Any idea why this would happen? I am running 4.1.3_U1, it's a sparc 20.
>
>Thanks
>-Bruce
>



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