From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 21:13:38 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 21:13:36 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9948E37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop4.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (pop4.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.2.83]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBM5DYS79702; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:13:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from earth (glitch@earth.execpc.com [169.207.16.1]) by pop4.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eBM5DXE96912; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:13:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:13:33 -0600 (CST) From: Jimmy Thomson To: Andy Farkas Cc: 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 Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Andy Farkas wrote: > 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...) > MAKEDEV pty7??? Anyone have any clue what the heck that does? Still not on the list, if you could keep me in the response chain :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message