On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 07:12:27PM -0800, Paul Goyette said something like:
> Ooops, my error:
> 
> Just do:
> 
> 	# cd /etc
> 	# ./MAKEDEV pty0
> 	# ./MAKEDEV pty1
> 
> etc.  Each of the pty classes (0 through 15) will create 16 pseudo-ttys,
> so you can get up to 256 of them!

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?







> 
> On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Jeffrey Dunitz wrote:
> 
> > 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. :/
> > > 

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