From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 20 18: 4:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.bxscience.edu (voyager.bxscience.edu [167.206.32.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD12F37B799 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:04:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chenkinj@voyager.bxscience.edu) Received: from voyager.bxscience.edu (localhost.bxscience.edu [127.0.0.1]) by voyager.bxscience.edu (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e6L14U658722; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:04:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007210104.e6L14U658722@voyager.bxscience.edu> To: Bob K , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: your mail In-reply-to: (Your message of Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:00:18 EDT.) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:04:30 -0400 From: Jared Chenkin Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Bob K writes: >On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Jared Chenkin wrote: > >> Random question, but do you actually log out or do you just close the >> ssh window? I notice that very often users on my system simply close >> their telnet windows and the process does not die (namely the shell). >> It became a real annoyance when telnetd(8) would start turning away >> successful logins, complaining that all ttys were used up. > >I find a short, quick wall(1) whenever ttys are running low is a handy >cure for this problem, as the connections are reset by the hosts when they >receive the output (assuming that telnet has indeed been closed). If you >know the usage patterns you could even make it an early-morning cron >job... > >-- >Bob >"Reality is the only word in the language that should always be used > in quotes" - The Amityville Horror III > Interesting...actually idled(1) handles the problem quite nicely as these "log-ins" to rack up some serious idle time :) Live Large, Jared Chenkin (AIM: DevNull24) Networked Systems Administrator Bronx Science Computing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message