From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 2 9:25:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu (sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2ED14DBF for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 09:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-6-11.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.47.47]) by sawasdee.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06959 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:25:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <372C7C4C.3F62A595@confusion.net> Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 12:24:45 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FTP Maxuser limits for ftpd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Walnut creek is limiting users to 5000, and they used to limit to 3600. The question is how? I looked in man FTPd, and there's no mention of a user limit that I can find. Then I remembered that stuff was in the kernel, so I looked there. Maxusers doesn't set that, it just sets maxproc and other related stuff. So the next look is pseudo-device pty number, but number can't go above 256, and it doesnt indicate that ftpd looks in there anyway. So how exactly are they doing it? And while we're at it how are the echoing back the current ftp users to the login message? -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message