From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 12:48:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04116 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03798 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10847; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 12:35:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: 陳華人chen hua-jen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hi... In-Reply-To: <199805060756.PAA24273@pine.iecs.fcu.edu.tw> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA03820 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 May 1998, 陳華人chen hua-jen wrote: > > I read some documents about how to increase the number of tty/pty > to 256, 512 or 1024 and tried those methods, but they cant work. > Would you please teach me about that?! If it works, how should I > know this? And if different versions of FreeBSD should take different > ways to make tty device?! 1. /dev/MAKEDEV pty7 - makes all possible tty[pqrsPQRS]* devices 2. vi /etc/ttys - add each tty and 'network' after it to the bottom 3. kill -HUP init - reread configuration 4. Enjoy! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message