Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:14:45 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com>, "matt" <matt@BabCom.ORG> Cc: <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: tty's Message-ID: <002701bf27db$2b2c2e20$dbdffea9@megared.net.mx> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911032122040.13827-100000@s01.arpa-canada.net> <19991103211353.A80685@dan.emsphone.com>
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Hi,
But if you are trying to increase the default telnet sessions that your
server can handle (16 sessions), also increase the following option in your
kernel:
pseudo-device pty 16
to whatever you want.
P.S. Dont forget to rebuild your kernel and install it.
Have Fun...
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: matt <matt@BabCom.ORG>
Cc: <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: tty's
> In the last episode (Nov 03), matt said:
> > This might be a stupid question that I'm missing the obvious
> > on, but I'm doing a little planning ahead for the future tonight, and
> > am wondering, that since network logins go to ttyp[0-9 a-v] (on my
> > system, I don't have ttyp{w|x|y|z}) What happens after all those
> > ttyp's are used up, where do logins and other things that use ttyp's
> > (Screen, etc) go to? Is there something one can do to increase that,
> > I see in /etc/ttys that there is ttyq,ttyr,etc but I don't see them
> > in /dev, nor does MAKEDEV want to make them as far as I can tell.
>
> Ptys aren't just ptyp*; the full set of pty nodes consist of the
> filenames pty[pqrsPQRS][0-9a-v]. The last character only goes to 'v'
> because that gives an even power of 2 (32) combinations. 8*32 = 256
> total devices.
>
> If you don't see them in /dev, run "./MAKEDEV pty0 pty1 pty2 pty3 pty4
pty5
> pty6 pty7", which will create all 256 device files.
>
> > Please cc' me, as I'm not on this list due to the high volume of
> > traffic it generates. Thank you in advance.
>
> (this is standard operating procedure on all the FreeBSD lists, BTW)
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@emsphone.com
>
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