on Wed Mar 07 2007, "Bruno Antunes" <sardaukar.siet-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All, > > > I have installed cygwin yesterday, March 6th 2007 and I have it > running with perfect logging and even public key authentication. So > far, so good. > > Today, after an initial trial use, I started getting "could not > allocate pty" errors, that can be explained by the huge amount of > ssh.exe and scp.exe processes left running on the server – they don't > take up CPU but they do take up RAM (about 2/3MB each). What can be > the problem? Restarting the service does no good – basically the > processes aren't killed when the user logs off. This can, forseeably > cause problems. The user running the service is the one created by > ssh-server-config. I have the same problem. So far there's been no response from this list. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/