Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Expect - spawn failure

[Roland G. <RGi...@a1...>]

>     "cannot open a pty: cannot grantpt() at (my script location) -
> Error String: (Not enough space).
> 
> I too have tried to run this out of a shell and the response back 
> in the
> shell is "
>     "Cannot fork: Not enough space at
> /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005/Expect.pm line 98, <INfile> chunk 129

Nothing strange here, in both cases a fork fails (grantpt() spawns a 
suid prog) due to not enough memory available on the machine, so from a 
software point of view this is a correct response.  Now why your 
machine doesn't have enough memory, that's a completely different 
issue...

> I'm really puzzled about the "space" issue as I've plenty of space
> available in all file systems.

No, not file systems, memory.  Maybe there are some huge processes 
running?  Swap space too small?

Hope this helps,

Roland
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