[comp.unix.questions] Out of streams error

dinah@shell.UUCP (Dinah Anderson) (06/19/89)

We had a machine this morning (a Sun4 running SunOS 4.0.1) that was giving 
the following error when trying to do an rlogin:

rlogind: /dev/ttyp0: Out of stream resources.
Connection closed.

It gave a similar error when trying to invole suntools. Rebooting
cleared the problem up. /etc/dmesg shows:

stropen: out of streams

Can someone tell me what this means and if there is something we
need to change in the kernel to prevent it from happening again?


Dinah Anderson 
Shell Oil Company, Information Center (713) 795-3287
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