Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:26:00 +0000 From: "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Out of pty's Message-ID: <BAY2-F28p9NBUL23sse0000aa7f@hotmail.com>
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>Looks like my system is running out of free pty's. There are a bunch of >users on the system running screen, so we are using up a ton of the >ptys. > >How do I find out the limit of ptys on my system? (sysctl doesn't >seem to show anything relevant.) > >How do I increase that value? The pseudo-pty value in the kernel config >has no assigned value (ie. we are using the default).... but what is the >default? > Which version of FreeBSD? I had a similar problem on my 4.9-stable box. What I did was use /dev/MAKEDEV to create some more pty devices. ls /dev/pty* will show you how many you have, then /dev/MAKEDEV pty1 (can also use pty2 pty3 pty4 etc) will create more. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
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