On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Archaic wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:32:40PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >
> > You mean that the ttys up to 63 are really supposed to be there ? I
> > actually don't think I would mind using a few of the higher-numbered
> > ones. I'll have to see what I can come up with for recording the ttys
> > (this box is an athlon64 4000+).
>
> Sorry for my incomplete info, but somewhere not very deep in the kernel
> sources was a define of how default tty's should be assumed counting
> from 0. For a very short period, and on only one box, I edited that
> number down drastically (I defined 13 ttys). No problems whatsoever and
> a much nicer looking /dev. :)
>
I'm tempted to look at that, but I only really look at /dev/ on my
desktop boxes, and on those I keep rebuilding the kernel, so it would be
yet another thing to forget. Thnaks anyway.
Ken
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