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From: Ian Fink <fink@arlut.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Help with pty's
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:31:05 -0500
Organization: Applied Research Laboratories - The University of Texas at Austin
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I am having problems adding more pty's using BSDI 2.0.1.

I created more pty's using /dev/MAKEDEV.  Then I added them
to the /etc/ttys file and excuted kill -HUP 1.  However,
when I do a pstat -t the count on pty's is still 32 :(

Can anyone help with this?

Ian Fink
fink@arlut.utexas.edu