From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 27 03:30:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA24667 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 03:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA24662 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 03:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA20780; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:29:55 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199708271029.MAA20780@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: large number of logins and utmp In-Reply-To: <199708270952.CAA14284@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from Satoshi Asami at "Aug 27, 97 02:52:18 am" To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 12:29:55 +0200 (SAT) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I just noticed that after increasing the number of pty's to 64, none > of my ttyq xterm's except ttyq0 are registered in utmp. I tried > slogin, rlogin and telnet, none of them registered their tty either. > ... > > Is this normal? Also, "ttyq0" appears in the first line of "who", > which appears odd to me. > Did you update your /etc/ttys file? I think that if they are not listed in there, they don't show up in utmp. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za