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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:16:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" <amir@neuron.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAKEDEV problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002221328.26112L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19970929153601.30381@neuron.net>

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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Amir Y. Rosenblatt wrote:

> I seem to be ruynning out of PTYs (despite my kernel being set to have 256
> of em).  I attenmpted to run MAKEDEV and got the following:
> 
>    [root@thorazine]/dev {3:33pm}# ./MAKEDEV local
>    ./MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: ""

Huh?  That's a dead end.  

If you want to make more pty's, run this:

/dev/MAKEDEV pty256

A quick poke at the code doesn't seem to indicate that it generates
ttyp0...ttypX automatically, you may need to script this to automate
running MAKEDEV repeatedly for pty0...pty256.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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