From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 13:20: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ophelia.sharding.net (ophelia.dogcow.org [216.162.195.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E991437B724 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sharding@dogcow.org) Received: (from sharding@localhost) by ophelia.sharding.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f29LJgb17291 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:19:42 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:19:42 -0800 From: Sean Harding To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Out of ptys in 4.2 Message-ID: <20010309131942.C11172@dogcow.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Sean Harding sharding@dogcow.org | "Sometimes the truth is like a http://www.dogcow.org/sean/ | second chance" | --Dar Williams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message