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From: mbrookov@diana.cair.du.edu (Matthew B. Brookover)
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Subject: Re: pty's
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Date: 8 Apr 91 14:01:29 GMT
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In article <1991Apr7.200722.20811@mercury.cair.du.edu> mbrookov@diana.cair.du.edu (Matthew B. Brookover) writes:
>I have a DECsystem 5400 running Ultrix 4.1.  We have installed the
>65+ capicity upgrade.  I created 64 pty's and tty's with /dev/MAKEDEV,
>and then added them to /etc/ttys and then did a kill -HUP 1 to make
>init read the changes to /etc/ttys.

the kernel config file must be modified to get more than 32 ptys.  change the
line
	pseudo-device pty
to
	pseudo-device pty 64

the guide to configuration file maintenance says that the number must be an
increment of 16.

My thanks to the people who responded.

							Matt
-- 
Matthew B. Brookover
Computing and Information Resources
University of Denver
mbrookov@diana.cair.du.edu