From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 22:16:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA17995 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA17984 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA26284; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:16:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV problems In-Reply-To: <19970929153601.30381@neuron.net> Message-ID: 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, 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