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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: telnetd: all ports in use Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:11:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4d6pqu$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <30F44122.6328@his.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Cc: Tom Daniels <tdaniels@his.com> (Cc: to Tom) Tom Daniels <tdaniels@his.com> writes: > I have a machine at work which tells me that all the > telnet ports are in use when more than one person tries to telnet > to it. Maybe you have too few ptys. This is a configurable parameter in the kernel config file. It's not only telnet that consumes ptys, also xterm, emacsen's shell and gdb mode, script(1), to name a few. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)