Hey folks,
I've got a Blade 100 running solaris 8 (2.8).
There seems to be a problem with the /dev/ptmx pseudo-terminal multiplexer. It keeps running out of PTYs either because an application is not releasing them, or no PTYs are being released.
Hence when I rlogin, telnet, rsh I get a "cannot open device /dev/ptmx" type error message.
I've been searching on the sunsolve site and various other places but have only found patch 100513-05 which fixes a few PTY issues, including hogging resources.
However the patch isn't for Sol 8 and so I can't use it. Has anyone else had similar problems, is there a Sol 8 patch I can add?
Currently I am having to manually remove the character special files from /devices/pseudo when we run out, I don't want to just increase the number of PTYs in the kernel as this will only delay the problem, not cure it.
Any help much appreciated!
Cheers
Loon
I've got a Blade 100 running solaris 8 (2.8).
There seems to be a problem with the /dev/ptmx pseudo-terminal multiplexer. It keeps running out of PTYs either because an application is not releasing them, or no PTYs are being released.
Hence when I rlogin, telnet, rsh I get a "cannot open device /dev/ptmx" type error message.
I've been searching on the sunsolve site and various other places but have only found patch 100513-05 which fixes a few PTY issues, including hogging resources.
However the patch isn't for Sol 8 and so I can't use it. Has anyone else had similar problems, is there a Sol 8 patch I can add?
Currently I am having to manually remove the character special files from /devices/pseudo when we run out, I don't want to just increase the number of PTYs in the kernel as this will only delay the problem, not cure it.
Any help much appreciated!
Cheers
Loon