Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:46:11 -0700 From: The Clark Family <Clark@open.org> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP Maxuser limits for ftpd Message-ID: <199905030449.VAA22980@opengovt.open.org> In-Reply-To: <372C7C4C.3F62A595@confusion.net>
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I seem to remember thinking that they had gone upto 6000, with an ultimate goal of going to 10,000. (New hardware from what I hear.) I should say, that the version of ftpd they run has been massaged just a little. (Although they've offered their mods to anyone who is interested.) I don't know how maxusers is set. [RC] At 12:24 PM 5/2/99 -0400, Laurence Berland wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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