server refused to allocate pty - FC2

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 19.08.2004 schrieb Mike Burger um 6:45:

> Today, I noticed that I couldn't log ssh into my FC2 workstation.
> 
> Additionally, I couldn't open up any additional Konsole terms and actually
> get a command prompt.
> 
> When attempting to ssh in via putty from a Windows machine, I get this:
> 
> login as: mburger
> Sent username "mburger"
> mburger at winblows.bubbanfriends.org's password:
> Server refused to allocate pty

> Has anyone else seen this behavior?  If so, has anyone figured out how to
> get around it?

How many pts' do run now on the machine in question? Did it run out of
resources?

ps a | grep -c pts

Alexander


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