Subject: Re: expect: no more ptys
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@tac.gw.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/27/2005 09:08:13
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?

christos