On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 10:58:40AM -0800, Paul Goyette said something like:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Jeffrey Dunitz wrote:
> 
> 
> > SECOND QUESTION:
> > I keep running out of TTYs on my mac. There are more devices in /dev
> > than what I seem to be able to use. How does one solve this? It's frustrating
> > to try to log into the machine and it says it's out of ttys. :/
> 
> You can log in as root and use the /dev/MAKEDEV script to create more
> ttys.  But you'll probably also need some more ptys if you're telnetting
> into the box or if you're using dt.
> 
> 	# cd /dev
> 	# ./MAKEDEV ttyp
> 	# ./MAKEDEV tyyq
> 	# ./MAKEDEV ttyr
> 	# ./MAKEDEV ptyp
> 	# ./MAKEDEV ptyq
> 	# ./




# ./MAKEDEV ptyr
./MAKEDEV: ptyr: pty unit must be between 0 and 15

That's not what I expected...
 
I even tried manually making the devices with mknod, which gives me more 
device entries, but they don't seem to do anything--ie, when I try to log
into my machine again, it says that all network ports are in use, even 
though I just created ptyr[0-f], which weren't there before. Has anyone 
ever had this problem?



> 
> This should give you more than you can ever keep track of!
> 


That's how I like it! The measure of a stable system is that your box
has been up so long, you can't remember where most of your windows are. :)

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