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Request for assistance



kill all the getty's?

At 01:51 PM 10/27/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a device file authorization problem.  I'm using expect version 5.12.0.
>When I tell expect to "spawn telnet", I get the following: 
>     pty master (/dev/ptysf) is locked...skipping
>     too many programs spawned? - out of ptys
>         while executing
>     "spawn telnet"
>
>I cannot find any lock files for /dev/ptysf and I've tried "chmod 777 /dev
>/pty*", but I still get the same error message.  I do not, however, have 
>any problem when logged in as root.  Any suggestions would be most welcome.
>
>

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