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Date:      Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:18:56 +0200
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Gregory Edigarov <greg@cc.ac.kharkov.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VTY question
Message-ID:  <3507D2B0.64E1@barcode.co.il>
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.980312104238.1744A-100000@cc.ac.kharkov.ua>

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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.

> 
> With best regards,
>           Gregory Edigarov               greg@cc.ac.kharkov.ua
> 

Nadav

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