In the last episode (Jul 19), Unga said: > On Sat, 7/19/08, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2008-Jul-18 18:38:36 -0700, Unga wrote: > > >As per FAQ, > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html, > > > I tried to increase the number of ptys: "10.19.1 Build and > > > install a new kernel with the line in the configuration file: > > > device pty N where N is the number of requested pseudoterminals." > > > > That has been obsolete for a while. Do you actually have a problem > > with insufficient PTYs? > > Looks like, may not be. > > The Problem: > expect -c "spawn ls" > spawn ls > The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create > more. while executing "spawn ls" > > It now seems to be a permission problem as explained in > http://expect.nist.gov/FAQ.html#q67 . > > Still investigating. Any help will be very much appreciated.
Expect's error message doesn't say anything except "something isn't working but I won't tell you what". Run truss -o truss.log -f expect -c "spawn ls" and determine which syscall is failing, with what error number, just before expect prints its "no more ptys" message. That will tell you whether it's a permissions issue, or something else. If there are no obvious errors, post a part of the log. Also, what version of expect are you running? Versions between 5.38.0_1 and 5.43.0_2 had a bug in the port Makefile that limited the number of ptys expect could see. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108311 . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
