You need to add extra ttys to /dev/ttys...
	

		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}

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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Darryl Bowler wrote:

> Recently I configured my 1.2 system to use 64 ptys, however I can never ever
> get more that 32 xterms.
> 
> Looking through the mailing archive I noticed that Neil J. McRae reported this
> bug 
> 
> Description:
>    When running a kernel with more that 32 pty's after opening ttyqe
>    /var/run/utmp is not updated correctly:
>    Note that I have ttyp0 through to ttyr5 in use, but who/finger/w does not
>    indicate them, and where I to open another xterm the ttyr5 would be over
>    written with an entry for ttyr6
> 
> 
> Does anyone if this got fixed?
> 
> 
> Regards Darryl.
> 
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