Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Out of ptys?? | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:48:03 +0300 (EEST) | From | Matti Aarnio <> |
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This is 2.1.115 FAQ thing:
orc@pell.portland.or.us (david parsons) wrote: > Nicholas J. Leon <nicholas@binary9.net> wrote: > >On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > # This system has been running 2.1.115 for awhile and it seems to work > > # I just updated another machine, identical hardware, etc. > > # It does not work. > > # > > # # rlogin quark > > # rlogind: Out of ptys. <------------ What the hell! > > > >The major number from pty's has changed from 4 to 3 & 2 in 2.1.115. > > I don't know who did this, but, please, change the major numbers > back; having to manually redo all the /dev entries for ptys > every time you toggle the system between a <2.1.115 and >=2.1.115 > kernel will get old really fast.
Nicholas gave wrong reason. If your system has not been running with TTY/PTYs of major numbers 2 and 3 since 1.3.*, you truly are running an old installation...
2.1.115 just REMOVED backwards compability support for major '4' as tty/pty device number.
> ____ > david parsons \bi/ This is another case where devfs comes in handy. > \/ That may be so, but it has its own problems..
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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