Re: 2.0.36 anyone?

System Administrator (admin@intergrafix.net)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:35:35 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The only other major thing is my sshd wont work. I try to connect from the
> > client and the syslog on the server-side says "error: openpty: No such
> > file or directory" "error: Failed to allocate a pty!" and the client just
> > hangs. I had ssh/sshd 1.2.26, I tried 2.0.10 too, but that generates the
> > same error too. I didn't compile Unix98 pty's in the kernel.
> > Oh, and gpm doesn't work anymore. /dev/psaux: No such device
>
> The pty one is simple enough. The old old kernels used a set of 64 minor
> numbers in a single tty major for ptys and it wasnt enough, so about 1.2
> that was changed to a new set. 2.1.12x dropped support for the ancient
> ones. Remake your /dev/pty* /dev/tty[pqrs]*
>

i enabled Unix98 pty's (even though i'm still using libc5) and now ssh and
telnet is working ok.
One glitch though. it says in the Changes documentation to make an entry
in /etc/fstab for /dev/pts:
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

so i did, and made /dev/pts and /dev/ptmx also just like it said. On
reboot it says "fs devpts isn't supported by the kernel". I made SURE
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS and CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS was set to yes

> /dev/psaux: no such device either means you didnt compile PS/2 mouse in, or
> it failed to find a PS/2 mouse. Please check this one because Linus did
> a major clean up of the ps/2 code in 125/6

mouse works fine now since i enabled unix98 ptys

Thanx,

-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
admin@intergrafix.net Intergrafix Internet Services

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