Subject: Re: How to make extra pts devices?

From: [email-masked] (Casper H.S. Dik)
Date: 10 Aug 1993 19:12:35 GMT

[email-masked] (Matt Hughes) writes:

>We are running Solaris 2.2 on a Sparc server 1000, and it seems for some reason
>the default setup only creates 48 pts devices (pseudo tty slave devices). I 
>have changed the kernel variables max_users, npts (turns out is NOT the number
>of pts devices - broke badly!), and npty (didn't break, also didn't help ...) 
>to no avail ... any ideas?

In /etc/system:

	set pt_cnt = <number>

# touch /reconfigure
# reboot

npty has an effect on the number of old-style (BSD style) pseudo
ttys.
    
Casper