Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:16:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" <amir@neuron.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002221328.26112L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970929153601.30381@neuron.net>
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Amir Y. Rosenblatt wrote:
> I seem to be ruynning out of PTYs (despite my kernel being set to have 256
> of em). I attenmpted to run MAKEDEV and got the following:
>
> [root@thorazine]/dev {3:33pm}# ./MAKEDEV local
> ./MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: ""
Huh? That's a dead end.
If you want to make more pty's, run this:
/dev/MAKEDEV pty256
A quick poke at the code doesn't seem to indicate that it generates
ttyp0...ttypX automatically, you may need to script this to automate
running MAKEDEV repeatedly for pty0...pty256.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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