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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:28:36 -0800
From:      Justin Burke <mlist-freebsd-questions@alt255.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Out of pty's
Message-ID:  <20031204212836.GP91900@alt255.com>

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Hi All,

Looks like my system is running out of free pty's. There are a bunch of
users on the system running screen, so we are using up a ton of the
ptys. 

How do I find out the limit of ptys on my system? (sysctl doesn't
seem to show anything relevant.) 

How do I increase that value? The pseudo-pty value in the kernel config
has no assigned value (ie. we are using the default).... but what is the
default?


TIA,
Justin



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