Thanks to all who replied to my original request. It turns out that the
answer _was_ in the FAQ, but I had misinterpreted the entry there as
referring only to "pty"s and not to "pts"s. Here was the request:
>I recently had a situation where the number of network users on our main
>server exceeded the number of available pts connections (48). I have
>looked high and low (in the Answerbooks, FAQ's, etc.) but cannot find
>anything on the subject of how to increase this value.
>
>Details: we are running Solaris 2.2; the machine is a SPARCserver 10/512
>with 64MB of memory. The problem is that the number of entries in
>/dev/pts is limited to 48 (0 .. 47), these are links to
>/devices/pseudo/pts:??
The answer (one of many replies):
> From the comp.sys.sun FAQ, here is the procedure I used under solaris
> 2.3 to get above the 48 pts limit.
> 57) How do I increase the number of "pseudo" terminals(ptys) ?
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
> For SunOS5.x:
>
> In /etc/system, add the line:
>
> set pt_cnt=nnn -- nnn can have a value up to 255.
> touch /reconfigure
> and reboot using 'init 6'.
And it worked like a charm.
Many thanks to:
Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
Ric Anderson <ric@Artisoft.COM>
hassane@abcomp.be (chaouch hassane)
Aydin Edguer <edguer@MorningStar.Com>
Danny.Mispelters@Belgium.Sun.COM (Danny Mispelters)
Brad Burdick <bburdick@radio.com>
lcollera@amgen.com (Lori Colleran)
admin@di.uminho.pt (Administrador do Sistema)
carlson@egr.msu.edu
Linda Cygan <cygan@wpm.com>
df5slsn@if000350.bell-atl.com (Hermida)
adap@andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
George Wells.
-- George Wells Dept of Computer Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa Email: csgw@cs.ru.ac.za Phone: (Local) (0461) 318296 (International) +27-461-318296
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