Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:59:36 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim <spork@cncn.com> To: Gregory Edigarov <greg@cc.ac.kharkov.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VTY question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980312155619.466B-100000@mental> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980312104238.1744A-100000@cc.ac.kharkov.ua>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > Hello! > > By default, all BSD systems gives only 8 vtys (Alt-F1...AltF8)... > And I can't found any reason to limit this number. > In Linux, I was able to use all 12 vtys. Is anywhere a workaround for this > problem? > > > With best regards, > Gregory Edigarov greg@cc.ac.kharkov.ua > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To get more ttys, I set "options MAXCONS=##" in my kernel config, ## being thirteen in my case or whatever else you want. Then I cd'd to /dev and went "./MAKEDEV vtyc", which made the terminal devices. Then, edit /etc/ttys to include entries identical to that of ttyv1 for all the new ttys. Then, "kill -HUP 1" as root and the changes to /etc/ttys will take effect and you will have many ttys. -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" --Computer Contradictionary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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