From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 20:31:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05052 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04395 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28630; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:30:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Scott Myron cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: simple question In-Reply-To: <34F43F8B.6073FF11@hsonline.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Scott Myron wrote: > under FreeBSD I can only open 3 tty's.. is there anyway I can open more? You mean virtual terminals (vty's)? Sure; just MAKEDEV some more (MAKEDEV vty10) then start gettys on them from /etc/ttys. At some point you have to build a new kernel with options "MAXCONS=16" but I think the default is OK (??). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message