rlogind: /etc/init: Invalid argument

[Chris Jankowski]

In article <9714 at blia.BLI.COM> mike at blia.UUCP (Mike Ubell) writes:
> Has anyone seen the message:
> rlogind: /etc/init: Invalid argument when trying to rlogin into a Pyramid?
> It seems to be an intermittent problem.
>
> We seem to have plenty of pty's left (the higher numbered ones have
> access/modify times of about 1 year ago).
>
> Pyramid was not able to tell us what the message means.

Well, I am also Pyramid but I had this one before. (:-))

On the system I had this problem it was caused by somebody modyfing
an entry for a pseudo terminal in /etc/ttys on the target (remote) system
from say 02ttyp9 to 12ttyp9 (logins enabled).
The intermittant nature of the problem is then obvious. 
If there is less then 9 pseudo terminals in use everything is OK. 
Next one gets rejection.

Could you let me know if that was your problem?

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