setting up max ptys under 5.x
Joshua Oreman
oremanj at webserver.get-linux.org
Fri Jun 27 11:05:34 PDT 2003
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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