[SunHELP] Number of ptys

[Dale Ghent]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Shahid Shahzad-W5106C wrote:

| Hi, As more users open more windows, I am running into errors of the
| type: "Unable to open window: out of ptys". How can I increase the
| number of ptys on a solaris 2.6, E3500 system.

edit /etc/system and add the line:

set pty_cnt = number

where "number" is the number of PTYs you want created on the system. The
default is 48, I believe.

After editing the file, run 'reboot -- -r'

/dale