setting up max ptys under 5.x

[Joshua Oreman]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:20:05AM -0700 or thereabouts, Josh Brooks wrote:
> 
> For various reasons, in 4.x, I have been creating all possible pty /dev
> nodes ...
> 
> # pwd
> /dev
> # ls *pty* | wc -l
>      256
> 
> 
> So far so good...now I am wondering how to do this in 5.x, what with the
> devfs and all.  Basically the number of interactive users that log into
> this system means I need to have all the possible ptys ...
> 
> What should my strategy be ?
> 
> BTW, I noticed that in my kernel config file I can no longer set:
> 
> device	  pty   256
> 
> I have to just set:
> 
> device	  pty

That's correct.

> 
> as I get an error if I put the number in place ... also I have set
> maxusers to 512 ... any new toggles I should know of to be able to use max
> ptys on the system, or can I just follow whatever directions I hope to
> receive regarding creating the devices ?

5.x creates the devices automatically. So if you have 256 users, you'll have 256
ptys. If you have 0 users, you'll have 0 ptys. maxusers has no effect, setting
it to 512 does seem a bit high...

-- Josh

> 
> thanks!
> 
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