Re: out of ptys

[Giuseppe Sacco <gsacco@hsomail.com>]

pty (pseudo terminal?) are linux devices defined in some quantity compiling the
kernel. If you find this a problem then you do have to recompile the kernel
increasing this amount.

They are used when a program needs a device where to write to and read from,
but this shoudn't be a real terminal. A real terminal is something like a
vt100, a pseudo terminal is, for example, an xterm window.

HTH,
Giuseppe

Will Lowe wrote:
> 
> Can anybody tell me what this means,  and how to fix it?
> 
> rivendell[502] [~]> rsh gondolin
> rlogind: Out of ptys.
> rlogin: connection closed.