From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 14:54:26 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 14:54:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F10337B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:54:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBLMpZF26901; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:51:46 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:51:35 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Jimmy Thomson Cc: Edwin Groothuis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pty's? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jimmy Thomson wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:09:10PM -0600, Jimmy Thomson wrote: > > > I am running 4.2 stable, and for some reason I can't get more than 32ptys > > > open at a time. I have 256 specified in the kernel, but it won't let me > > > use more than 32. I also have 256 users set in the kernel. How can I get > > > more ptys? > > > > did you make them in /dev ? (MAKEDEV) > > > > Edwin > > > > yep. How did you make the devices? (ie what exact command did you use?) It looks to me like /dev/MAKEDEV can make a maximum of 256 pty's by saying # cd /dev # /bin/sh MAKEDEV pty7 (yes, the '7' seems a bit confusing to me too...) -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message