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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I increase ptys? Date: 21 Aug 1996 07:17:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ved5m$ka6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4vbvb4$71f@bamboo.verinet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mike@bamboo.verinet.com (Mike Loseke) wrote: > I know the answer to this is simple, but I haven't discovered it yet: How > do I increase the number of available ptys on by 2.1-RELEASE box? . bump the number in the ``pseudo-device pty'' line in your kernel config file, _and_ . run MAKEDEV with the arguments pty1, pty2 etc., each will create a block of 32 ptys. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)