Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Installing and Conﬁguring Internet Services

Specifying rlogin Pseudo-Terminals

Beginning with the earlier 10.20 version of HP-UX, the rlogin/rlogind

internet service works with the 4-byte EUC (Extended Universal

Character set). To support this feature, the pseudo-terminal in rlogind

uses a STREAMS-based pseudo-terminal driver. The STREAMS master

pseudo-terminal driver is ptm and the device used is /dev/ptmx. The

STREAMS slave pseudo-terminal driver is pts and the slave devices

used are /dev/pts/number.

Because rlogind now uses the STREAMS-based pseudo-terminal, the

kernel parameter you tune for rlogin pseudo-terminals is NSTRPTY,

instead of NPTY. (Note that NPTY is still used for pseudo-terminals that

use the traditional pseudo-terminal driver.)

An additional effect of this change is that on rlogin pseudo-terminals,

the tty command now displays /dev/pts/number instead of

/dev/ttynumber.