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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: ptys and tty's; and accounting [FreeBSD] Date: 28 Oct 1993 18:29:00 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2ap31c$bkc@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2an8ig$sp6@tut.msstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2an8ig$sp6@tut.msstate.edu>, Priviledged Acct. <root@cy.cs.olemiss.edu> wrote: >I have a couple of questions: [prob. should ask them in >comp.unix.xxxxx] > >1> How do i turn on accounting in FreeBSD? (what is the 'option' that > i have to include in the kernel config?) Accounting made it into the Final release, but not any of the previous releases. >2> Currently, my maxusers is set to 24, and so is my pty. But, i can >never open more than 16 xterms, or network connections. I figure thats >cause of the fact that i currently have only 16 /dev/pty* entries (and >16 /dev/ttyp* entries). How do i let more than 16 people log in >simultaneously? do i have to make more devices? (if so, how?) MAKEDEV pty0 pty1 Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me