unable to telnet to the machine

[vramesh]

Hi,

I'm unable to telnet to the sun machine and following is the error mesg:

# telnet <ipaddress>
Trying <ipaddress>...
Connected to hostname.xxx.xxx.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
telnetd: could not grant slave pty.
Connection closed by foreign host.

It would be helpful if anyone could suggest me to resolve this issue?

Regards,
VR

 

[NavinB]

Hi,

See the following file in the server u r trying to connect to :- /etc/hosts.equiv file and see if the server from which u r trying is allowed to access this server.....

 

[sendhilk]

You may have to increase the Number of PTY on your system.You can do
that by adding a line in /etc/system file

set pts_count=128 (Default is 48).

You can check the pts on your system by giving command:

ls -1 /dev/pts* | wc -l

 

[sendhilk]

It is possible that the /dev/pts symbolic links to the /devices/pseudo files are missing or corrupt.

Running /usr/sbin/devlinks or performing a reconfiguration boot,using boot -r, will recreate the symbolic links.