Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 18:02:54 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: out of tty ? Message-ID: <20030501175103.E56708-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <49334609.1051781813@sauron.in.mat.cc>
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On Thu, 1 May 2003, 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 think ssh and screen use /dev/ptyp* devices.
Did you create the device nodes in /dev ?
# cd /dev
# sh MAKEDEV pty3
(this makes 128 pty's)
Note the argument to MAKEDEV is pty[0-7] which creates n+1*32 pty's.
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Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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