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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: SSH errors with 'File or directory does not exist' but only if more that 10 users are logged in
Date: 31 Mar 2004 21:32:54 GMT
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On 2004-03-31, David McCormack <nospam@zamang.co.uk> wrote:
: I'm using a downloaded binary version of ckermit version 8.0.209 on a SCO
: OpenServer box (v. 5.0.6). The kermit executable was downloaded from the
: main http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ web site.
:
: If we have 10 or more than users logged in to our SCO OpenServer box (but
: only one is running kermit) then kermit will fail to run the external ssh
: client. The error that gets displayed is;
:
:: No such file or directory
: Can't connect to ssh -e none -l root <hostname>
:
: If you have 9 users connected then ssh gets run correctly. This is with
: exactly the same configuration file. What is bizarre is that if 9 people are
: logged in you are running kermit, ssh will work. If 10th user logs in,
: whilst you're in kermit, ssh will fail. If the number of users connected
: goes back down to 9 or less, ssh will start working again.
:
: Does anyone have any ideas what's causing this or what areas I should check?
: It seems more SCO related then kermit though.
:
Sounds like you're running out of PTYs (pseudoterminals). I imagine there
is a way to create more, but I'm not an OSR5 sysadmin expert.
- Frank