From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 00:30:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16189 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16159 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:30:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA12339; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:30:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: angelayu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max user 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 Tue, 8 Sep 1998, angelayu wrote: > Does freebsd have max-user to 3? Could i open more than three users? > Alt F1. FreeBSD does neither limit the number of users nor does it limit the number of virtual consoles to three. It seems to me you're speaking of the latter point. If you want more than three virtual consoles you've to edit /etc/ttys and add lines like ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure Futhermore take a look at the kernel option `MAXCONS'. Since it defaults to 12 you'll probably don't need to change it and don't need to recompile the kernel. Don't forget to let one of the virtual consoles `unused' by `getty' if you want to run X11. The kernel parameter `maxusers' is used to set the size of internal data structures (e.g., the max # of processes depends on it). There's no static limit for the number of users. Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message