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Date:      Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:28:24 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
Cc:        Gregory Edigarov <greg@cc.ac.kharkov.ua>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VTY question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980312072427.19772A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <3507D2B0.64E1@barcode.co.il>

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On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Nadav Eiron wrote:

> Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > By default, all BSD systems gives only 8 vtys (Alt-F1...AltF8)...
> > And I can't found any reason to limit this number.
> > In Linux, I was able to use all 12 vtys. Is anywhere a workaround for this
> > problem?
> 
> You can set it in the kernel config file using 
> options "MAXCONS=12"
> 
> Of course, you also have to edit /etc/ttys to allow login on these extra
> terminals, and use MAKEDEV to make device nodes for them.
You do??
I always just added the entries in /etc/ttys and made sure the devices
were all there.
I have 11 vty's, with X running on ttyvb.
Also note that you should just use F1 etc. to switch between the vty's,
unless you're switching from X to a vty.

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