From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 9 22:27:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA25148 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 22:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ns1.castlenet.com (ns1.castlenet.com [209.63.23.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA25143 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 22:27:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efinley@castlenet.com) Received: from ip40.castlenet.com (ip40.castlenet.com [209.63.23.40]) by ns1.castlenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA18672; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 23:34:28 GMT From: efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot Finley) To: dlr Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Number of tty's Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 06:31:14 GMT Organization: Hiawatha Coal Company Reply-To: efinley@castlenet.com Message-ID: <34bc1595.108602463@castlenet.com> References: <19980110001458.53008@insane.asylum.org> In-Reply-To: <19980110001458.53008@insane.asylum.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA25144 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 00:14:58 -0500, you wrote: man MAKEDEV >I just got the following message on a freebsd machine: > >telnetd: All network ports in use. > > >I'm having problems with secure shell leaving dead shells around. > >Is there a way i can increase the number of logins accepted? > >I have ptys set to 256 in the kernel. Do I need to create new ttys? > >There are 49 tty* found in /dev. Do i need to increase this somehow? > >dave racette -- Elliot Finley (efinley@castlenet.com) President Hiawatha Coal Company