From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 16:22:10 2000 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 3FF4237B502 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 16:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00996; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:22:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:22:06 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jamie Norwood Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Raising PTYs Message-ID: <20001001182206.A29947@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20001001151030.A89252@mushhaven.net> <20001001172158.A19710@dan.emsphone.com> <20001001153741.A89586@mushhaven.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: <20001001153741.A89586@mushhaven.net>; from "Jamie Norwood" on Sun Oct 1 15:37:41 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 01), Jamie Norwood said: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 05:21:58PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > You're getting tripped up by the mass of inconsistencies that is > > MAKEDEV. You need to run "./MAKEDEV pty0 pty1 pty2 pty3 pty4 pty5 > > pty6 pty7" to create all 256 ptys. > > > > When you ran MAKEDEV pty7, you created the last set of 32 ptys. I > > think openpty() walks the list of ptys in sequential order, so when > > it couldn't find pty #33 it stopped, even though ptys #223-255 were > > available. > > I did this, and still can't get past ttypv. :( Any other suggestions > as to what I can look for? Even tried a reboot after the MAKEDEV to > no avail. Do the ptys exist in /dev? Are they in /etc/ttys? Exactly what error message are you getting? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message