[plug] terminal emulators fail to start

Rennie rennie.barnett at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 13:34:26 WST 2005


simon wrote:
> Rennie (rennie.barnett at gmail.com) wrote:
>> P.S. I have a feeling this might be related to my problem with screen
>> were it gives "sorry, no more PTYs" when I run it as anybody other than
>> root.
> 
> what's the output of
> 
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max

gatekeeper:/home/rennie# cat /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max
4096

It seems to me to be a permissions thing, the sys will not allow regular 
user to connect to PTYs - but then again I really have no idea.

> =================
> Simon Scott
> simon at plumtek.com
> mob: 0409113359
> =================

Thanks Simon.




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