Subject: Re: expect: no more ptys
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>
List: current-users
Date: 05/27/2005 16:05:54
On May 27 at 09:08, Christos Zoulas spoke:
> In article <20050527125720.GA24520@gicco.homeip.net>,
> Hanspeter Roth <current-users@netbsd.org> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have upgraded to 3.99.3 and then installed expect from pkgsrc.
> >A spawn in expect yields:
> >
> >The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more.
> >
> >But there are pleny ptys in /dev (from ptyp0 to ptysf).
> >
> >How can I make expect spawn work?
>
> Have you created /dev/ptm and /dev/ptmx with MAKEDEV?
It seems that after `MAKEDEV ptm' /dev/ptm and /dev/ptmx have
appeared.
And spawn now works! Thanks!
-Hanspeter