On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:28:36PM -0800, Justin Burke wrote: > Looks like my system is running out of free pty's. There are a bunch of > users on the system running screen, so we are using up a ton of the > ptys. > > How do I find out the limit of ptys on my system? (sysctl doesn't > seem to show anything relevant.) I believe you can increase the number of ptys by modifying /etc/ttys - from looking at my /etc/ttys file it looks as though once the ttyp* ttys are used up, the tty monniker changes to ttyq* etc...
> How do I increase that value? The pseudo-pty value in the kernel config > has no assigned value (ie. we are using the default).... but what is the > default? Again I believe this is down to /etc/ttys. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
