From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 7:50:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icarus.slightlystrange.org (icarus.slightlystrange.org [62.190.193.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86EB37B416 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from danielby by icarus.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16sQYI-0007Fl-00 for ; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 16:50:30 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:50:30 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH 2.9, FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <20020402155030.GB27119@icarus.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020402151820.GA27119@icarus.slightlystrange.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20020402093734.03a03560@pop3s.schulte.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020402093734.03a03560@pop3s.schulte.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message