From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 27 13:28:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACDF37B4C5 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA40489; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:28:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: "Rick C. Petty" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/22332: request to add more active ttys by default In-Reply-To: <200010271540.IAA72976@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Rick C. Petty wrote: > The following reply was made to PR misc/22332; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: "Rick C. Petty" > To: Doug Barton > Cc: rick@kiwi-computer.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: misc/22332: request to add more active ttys by default > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:35:44 -0500 (CDT) > > > In my totally unofficial opinion, having 8 virtual terminals is twice > > too many for most people. I can't imagine a user sophisticated enough to > > "need" 24 tty's who isn't also smart enough to take the 3.5 seconds to > > edit /etc/ttys and HUP init. > > In my experience, if it's available, people will use it. I've setup 12 > vtys for many people, included unsophisticated users who have no clue what > HUP or even a signal is (asside from a traffic light). You're arguing from a desktop platform perspective, whereas freebsd is usually used as a server platform, where no one ever sits at the console. I think the current value of 8 vty's is a good one, and in fact exceeds the number needed by the vast majority of users. At some point in the future we may have a "desktop/server" knob in sysinstall, but we have not reached that point yet. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message