From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 09:25:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA16077 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from max.fys.ruu.nl (max.fys.ruu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA16037 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@gromit.eu.org) Received: from gromit.nev.ml.org (root@psd.7da.nl [195.108.246.100]) by max.fys.ruu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7/hjm) with ESMTP id SAA26758; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:24:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from gromit.nev.ml.org [172.16.1.1] by gromit.nev.ml.org id RAA00217; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:24:46 +0100 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:24:46 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Dekkers X-Sender: paul@gromit.nev.ml.org Reply-To: Paul Dekkers To: andrew@ugh.net.au cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiuser?! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Mood: :-) but almost |-| (sleeping) Organization: Me and organized? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Nov 1997 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: | On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: | | > use some kernel options for it, and if I change that I can login with more | > users, but is there really a limit of just 64 users that can login using | > telnet or rlogin?! (there are more pty's in /dev!) | | No...you can have many more than that. Have you looked at /etc/ttys? Yes, but I couldn't use more ttys than 14 or smth if I didn't change the value in the kernel config. And there's a note that said "a maximum of 64 users", so I set it to 64... But is that really "the" limit?! | > Has anyone good (or bad) experiences with FreeBSD and multi-user systems?! | | Yep FreeBSD handles load very well. And doesn't eat that much memory - so do you think It is as good as digital unix or hp for multi-usering?! Paul