From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 01:09:54 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 5F5E037B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 01:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx3.absolight.com (mx3.absolight.net [212.43.217.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B357E43F75 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 01:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mat@mat.cc) Received: by mx3.absolight.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id E3AD22A0E; Thu, 1 May 2003 10:09:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sauron.in.mat.cc (sauron.in.mat.cc [212.43.217.122]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx3.absolight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B0029CE; Thu, 1 May 2003 10:09:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 10:10:09 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold To: Andy Farkas Message-ID: <51330578.1051783809@sauron.in.mat.cc> In-Reply-To: <20030501175103.E56708-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030501175103.E56708-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 08:09:54 -0000 +-Le 01/05/2003 18:02 +1000, Andy Farkas =E9crivait : | On Thu, 1 May 2003, Mathieu Arnold wrote: |=20 |> 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 ? |=20 | I think ssh and screen use /dev/ptyp* devices. That's right, I got confused with pty and tty :) | Did you create the device nodes in /dev ? | |# cd /dev |# sh MAKEDEV pty3 |=20 | (this makes 128 pty's) |=20 | Note the argument to MAKEDEV is pty[0-7] which creates n+1*32 pty's. now I should have as many pty as my users will ever need :) thanks :) --=20 Mathieu Arnold