Thread: No more PTYs
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spry_joseph
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 56
 
04-23-2007, 05:59 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by portalgod
#cat /proc/user_beancounters | egrep 'pty|lim'
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
numpty 1 1 32 32 0


As root, 'screen' runs no problem eating up more PTYs, but as any user it complains about no more PTYs available. Any ideas?
Most likely your user account doesn't have the permissions to read or write to the pty devices. Check the permissions on /dev/pty* and see if you are able to access them.
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