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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: out of ttys ??
To: nadav@cs.technion.ac.il (Nadav Eiron)
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 05:32:37 -0700 (MST)
Cc: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91-heb-2.04.960811144618.25863A@cs.technion.ac.il> from "Nadav Eiron" at Aug 11, 96 02:49:43 pm
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> > what am i missing?
> The following line in your kernel configuration:
> pseuodo-device	pty	16
> Change that to 32 or something, rebuild your kernel, and have fun!

And make sure you have an corresponding number of /dev/pty's
created (your setup appears to have 32) -- see /dev/MAKEDEV

--don