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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ptys and tty's; and accounting [FreeBSD]
Date: 28 Oct 1993 18:29:00 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2an8ig$sp6@tut.msstate.edu>,
Priviledged Acct. <root@cy.cs.olemiss.edu> wrote:
>I have a couple of questions: [prob. should ask them in
>comp.unix.xxxxx]
>
>1> How do i turn on accounting in FreeBSD? (what is the 'option' that
>   i have to include in the kernel config?)

Accounting made it into the Final release, but not any of the previous releases.

>2> Currently, my maxusers is set to 24, and so is my pty. But, i can
>never open more than 16 xterms, or network connections. I figure thats
>cause of the fact that i currently have only 16 /dev/pty* entries (and
>16 /dev/ttyp* entries). How do i let more than 16 people log in
>simultaneously? do i have to make more devices? (if so, how?)

MAKEDEV pty0 pty1


Nate

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