From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 00:44:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA4637B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 00:44:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C62443FBF for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 00:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au) Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41])h417glVS005639; Thu, 1 May 2003 17:42:52 +1000 (EST) From: JacobRhoden Organization: University of Melbourne To: Mathieu Arnold , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 17:42:47 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <49334609.1051781813@sauron.in.mat.cc> In-Reply-To: <49334609.1051781813@sauron.in.mat.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305011742.47017.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Subject: Re: out of tty ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 07:44:14 -0000 On Thu, 1 May 2003 05:36 pm, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > I use a 4.8-RELEASE, and I have a lot of users logging in with ssh and > using screen. It seems that ssh and screen only use /dev/ttyp*, which > limits to 32 ttys. How can I tell them to use all the tty[pq..] configured > in /etc/ttys ? I could be totally wrong, but I have a suspicion that the nymber of ttys is also linked to the kernel config MAXUSERS variable in some way, did you set MAXUSERS or leave it at 0? Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386