On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Keyser Soze wrote: > in general, what are the steps for increasing the number of available > multiple logins? up maxusers in your kernel config. up your pty pseudo-device count there as well. rebuild and install your kernel. run MAKEDEV to make more ptys. apply this patch if you need a lot more, like we do on monkey.org (where everyone and their brother runs screen - which you should also rebuild for expanded pty support): *** MAKEDEV Sun Nov 2 03:30:39 1997 --- MAKEDEV.dugsong Wed Nov 11 13:37:48 1998 *************** *** 372,381 **** 3) offset=48 name=s;; # Note that telnetd, rlogind, and xterm (at least) only look at p-s. 4) offset=64 name=t;; *) echo bad unit for pty in: $i;; esac case $class in ! 0|1|2|3|4) umask 0 n=0 while [ $n -lt 16 ] --- 372,392 ---- 3) offset=48 name=s;; # Note that telnetd, rlogind, and xterm (at least) only look at p-s. 4) offset=64 name=t;; + 5) offset=80 name=u;; + 6) offset=96 name=v;; + 7) offset=112 name=w;; + 8) offset=128 name=x;; + 9) offset=144 name=y;; + 10) offset=160 name=z;; + 11) offset=176 name=P;; + 12) offset=192 name=Q;; + 13) offset=208 name=R;; + 14) offset=224 name=S;; + 15) offset=240 name=T;; *) echo bad unit for pty in: $i;; esac case $class in ! 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15) umask 0 n=0 while [ $n -lt 16 ] -d.