From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 19:15:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086A614D28 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA80798; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:13:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:13:53 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: matt Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tty's Message-ID: <19991103211353.A80685@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@BabCom.ORG on Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:25:14PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 03), matt said: > This might be a stupid question that I'm missing the obvious > on, but I'm doing a little planning ahead for the future tonight, and > am wondering, that since network logins go to ttyp[0-9 a-v] (on my > system, I don't have ttyp{w|x|y|z}) What happens after all those > ttyp's are used up, where do logins and other things that use ttyp's > (Screen, etc) go to? Is there something one can do to increase that, > I see in /etc/ttys that there is ttyq,ttyr,etc but I don't see them > in /dev, nor does MAKEDEV want to make them as far as I can tell. Ptys aren't just ptyp*; the full set of pty nodes consist of the filenames pty[pqrsPQRS][0-9a-v]. The last character only goes to 'v' because that gives an even power of 2 (32) combinations. 8*32 = 256 total devices. If you don't see them in /dev, run "./MAKEDEV pty0 pty1 pty2 pty3 pty4 pty5 pty6 pty7", which will create all 256 device files. > Please cc' me, as I'm not on this list due to the high volume of > traffic it generates. Thank you in advance. (this is standard operating procedure on all the FreeBSD lists, BTW) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message