Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:19:42 -0800 From: Sean Harding <sharding@dogcow.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Out of ptys in 4.2 Message-ID: <20010309131942.C11172@dogcow.org>
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I'm out of ptys on my 4.2 workstation:
cyberdog ~
34% rxvt
rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty
rxvt: aborting
cyberdog ~
35% who am i
sharding ttyr9 Mar 9 13:16
The system is:
FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 18 15:54:26 PST 2001
I've greatly increased the number of tty devices in /dev:
cyberdog ~
36% ls /dev/tty* | wc -l
281
cyberdog ~
37% grep -c network /etc/ttys
257
Is there some limit to the dynamic pty allocation, or is something else
going wrong here? This is a very annoying problem and all of the 4.x
documentation I've been able to find seem to claim that you're not supposed
to have to worry about this in 4.x other than having enough device files.
sean
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Sean Harding sharding@dogcow.org | "Sometimes the truth is like a
http://www.dogcow.org/sean/ | second chance"
| --Dar Williams
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