From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 2 21:55:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opengovt.open.org (opengovt.open.org [199.2.104.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C5915CC1 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 21:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Clark@open.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by opengovt.open.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA22980; Sun, 2 May 1999 21:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905030449.VAA22980@opengovt.open.org> Received: from opengovt170.open.org(199.2.104.170) by opengovt.open.org via smap (V2.0) id xma022955; Sun, 2 May 99 21:48:56 -0700 X-Sender: clark@opengovt.open.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:46:11 -0700 To: Laurence Berland , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: The Clark Family Subject: Re: FTP Maxuser limits for ftpd In-Reply-To: <372C7C4C.3F62A595@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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