From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 4: 7:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25C315038 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 04:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mw@theatre.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id NAA28720; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:06:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by theatre.sax.de (8.9.3/8.6.12-s1) id HAA13680; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:53:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:53:59 +0100 From: Martin Welk To: jason schwab Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enabling more ttys... Message-ID: <19991214075359.A13327@theatre.sax.de> References: <19991214051848.5010.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991214051848.5010.qmail@hotmail.com>; from jasonschwab@hotmail.com on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:18:47AM -0500 Organization: Private UUCP/Usenet site. X-Phone: +49 3731 458867 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:18:47AM -0500, jason schwab wrote: > I set in the kernel config pty 256, and I did makedev pty7, and pty6 > which enabled /dev/ttyR* and /dev/ttyQ* and thier listed in /etc/ttys > but it wont use them, only 32 ppl can login, i need more ttys.. > any ideas, thankx Go to /sys/i386/conf, edit your kernel config file (or start a new one based on the GENERIC file) and increase the amount of ttys at the line pseudo-device pty 32 # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) to suit your needs. If you don't know anything about kernel configuration, the handbook section 5 is a good point for beginning. Don't write a new kernel config file from scratch, start with the GENERIC kernel config file and change it as you need. Regards, Martin -- /| /| | /| / ,,You know, there's a lot of opportunities, / |/ | artin |/ |/ elk if you're knowing to take them, you know, there's a lot of opportunities, Freiberg/Saxony, Germany if there aren't you can make them, mw@sax.de / mw@theatre.sax.de make or break them!'' (Tennant/Lowe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message