Out of pty's

2003-12-04 Thread Justin Burke
Hi All, 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.) How do I increase that value? The pseudo-

Out of pty's

2003-12-04 Thread Lee Harr
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.) How do I increase that value? The pseudo-pty value in

Re: Out of pty's

2003-12-04 Thread Jez Hancock
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 sho

Re: Out of pty's

2003-12-04 Thread Justin Burke
* Jez Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 limi

Re: Out of pty's

2003-12-04 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:25:54PM -0800, Justin Burke wrote: > /etc/ttys lists a ton of pseudo terminals, which is great. However, > after opening up 32 pseudo terminals (/dev/ptyp[0-9] and > /dev/ptyp[a-v]]), none of the other terminals are used (eg. /dev/ptyq*). > How do I get the system to star

RE: Out of pty's

2003-12-04 Thread DG
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jez Hancock > Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 10:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Out of pty's > > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:25:54PM -0800, Justin Burke wro

Re: Out of pty's

2003-12-04 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:30, DG wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jez Hancock > > Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 10:46 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Out of pty's > &g

Re: Out of pty's

2003-12-06 Thread Justin Burke
* Lee Harr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >How do I find out the limit of ptys on my system? (sysctl doesn't > >seem to show anything relevant.) > > > >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 >

Re: Out of pty's

2003-12-06 Thread Justin Burke
* Malcolm Kay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 1. Build and install a new kernel with the line > > > > pseudo-device pty 256 > > > >in the configuration file. > > > > 2. Run the commands > > > > I believe this may be out of date. I think the kernel may now > produce 256 by default -

Re: Out of pty's

2003-12-07 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:42, Justin Burke wrote: > * Malcolm Kay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > 1. Build and install a new kernel with the line > > > > > > pseudo-device pty 256 > > > > > >in the configuration file. > > > > > > 2. Run the commands > > > > I believe this may be out o