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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!aix5.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@aix5.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: ptys and tty's; and accounting [FreeBSD] Message-ID: <1993Oct28.182656.4912@emba.uvm.edu> Sender: news@emba.uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <2an8u7$t3s@tut.msstate.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 18:26:56 GMT Lines: 34 In article <2an8u7$t3s@tut.msstate.edu>, Viren R. Shah <viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu> wrote: >2> Currently, my maxusers is set to 24 Don't bother fiddling with maxusers, it doesn't do much of anything and doesn't have any effect whatsoever on the number of users you can actually have. >I figure thats >cause of the fact that i currently have only 16 /dev/pty* entries (and >16 /dev/ttyp* entries) You got it. $ su # cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV pty1 ...should make the second set of 16 ptys (ttyq0 to ttyqf). Similarly `pty2' does the third set (`r') and `pty3' does the fourth set (`s'). It is possible to create more than 48 ptys, but `xterm' and `rlogind' and `telnetd' don't bother to search beyond `s'. (The eventual solution to this is to provide a proper cloning pty driver with automatic allocation and templating.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant