From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 12 14:23:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA03684 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 14:23:52 -0800 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA03673 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 14:23:50 -0800 Received: from hpautow.aus.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.14/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA019037819; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 14:23:39 -0800 Message-Id: <199502122223.AA019037819@hp.com> Received: by hpautow.aus.hp.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA17873; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:22:00 +1100 From: "M.C Wong" Subject: Re: Increasing ptys beyond ttypf on FreeBSD 2.0 To: alan@niceguy.isocor.ie (Alan Byrne) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 9:21:59 EDT Cc: KEITH@ptnsct.nis.za, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Alan Byrne" at Feb 10, 95 4:45 pm X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14.c] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi, > try the following, (I got this from looking at the /dev/MAKEDEV script) > > Make sure there is an entry in your kernel config file for the max number > of pty's you want. > > pseudo-device pty 32 > > then in /dev dir do > > MAKEDEV pty1 > > This will make the 2nd batch of 16 pty's. (/dev/ptyq0-qf) > for the next (3rd) batch of 16......MAKEDEV pty2.... > > I hope this is right, as I've just finished doing it myself, but will > have to wait till later to test out the new kernel. > > Alan Just a word of caution, don't attempt to make pty as many as to cover the ttyv* when you are also using syscons virtual console, since those are the actual v.c used, and that will screw you up from loggin in from console. > > > On Thu, 9 Feb 1995, Keith Waters wrote: > > > Hi there. > > We have recompiled the kernel and everything in FreeBSD 2.0 but still can't > > get it to create ptys beyond ttypf, which means only 16 users can log in. > > Is this a hard limit, or is there a way of creating ttypg, ttyph , etc ? > > Thankyou very much for you time, > > Regards, > > Keith Waters > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 272 8058 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 898 9257 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://hpautow.aus.hp.com:9999/~mcw/mcw.html (or http://hpautorf/~mcw)