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Subject: RE: Problems with ssh and pseudo-terminals
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When I try 

	mount devpts /dev/pts -t devpts

I get an error :

	fs type devpts not supported by kernel (or something similar)

But the devpts is kompiled into the kernel ...

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Greg Wooledge [mailto:wooledg@eeg.ccf.org]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2001 20:10
An: Frédéric Gobin
Cc: ML-openSSH (E-Mail)
Betreff: Re: Problems with ssh and pseudo-terminals


On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:51:01PM +0200, Frédéric Gobin wrote:

> 	The server cannot allocate a pseudo-terminal. You may encounter some
> problems with the terminal.
> 
> What can I do ? BTW, I'm using kernel version 2.4.4 and the latest
> OpenSSH-Version

With or without devfs?  I can't help with devfs, because I've never
used it.  But for "normal" /dev, you should have a /dev/pts directory,
which becomes the mount point for a "devpts" pseudo-filesystem.  I've also
heard that the /dev/ptmx character device could be a problem.

Here's what I have (on a Linux kernel 2.2.19 system):

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 May 15 18:04 /dev/pts
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     tty        5,   2 May 17 14:08 /dev/ptmx

And "mount" says:

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

There is no entry for that in /etc/fstab, by the way.