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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:24:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Increasing the pty limit
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901312211590.480-100000@smarter.than.nu>

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I like to open lots of xterms, but I've found that once I have 16 ptys in
use, I can't spawn any more.  I've rebuilt my kernel with:

pseudo-device	pty 32

And I know I have enough pty device entries in /dev, but I still run into
the 16-pty limit. How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance,

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Brian Buchanan                                     brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
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