Dan Dockery wrote:
> >Yup, I did that, and it created a whole bunch of devices. However, I can't
> >seem to use them--after 16 logins, I get the same error, that I'm out of
> >ptys. I even rebooted (well, actually, I tried to kill -1 1, and it
> >appears to have hung the machine, so I had to whitebutton it.)
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> 
> I'm sorry if this has been brought up before, but have you tried recompiling your kernel with a greater MAXUSERS setting?  
> I believe the GENERIC kernel has this value set to 16. 

Actually, you need to change the line towards the bottom that currently
says:

pseudo-device   pty             16

Give yourself as many as you want, but like Dan said, you might want to
bump up maxusers if you're going to be adding a lot.

Later.

Colin