In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.990831195528.21293B-100000@interport.net>, "John D'Em
>I recompiled the kernel, bumped MAXUSERS up to 64 and the pty's up to like
>128.  This didn't help, so I manually created another 64 /dev/pty* files
>with MAKEDEV to no avail.  I have a feeling theres something really basic
>I'm over looking, can anyone help?

Did you change /etc/ttys to refer to the additional pty's, and perhaps SIGHUP
inetd and init?

-s