From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 14:16:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D369714F74 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:16:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253] (may be forged)) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA09830; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:17:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <002701bf27db$2b2c2e20$dbdffea9@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Dan Nelson" , "matt" Cc: References: <19991103211353.A80685@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: RE: tty's Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:14:45 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: matt Cc: 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message