From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Nov 13 06:04:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08868 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 06:04:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.206.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08863 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 06:04:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from localhost (andyf@localhost) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA08053; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:04:00 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: backup.zippynet.iol.net.au: andyf owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:04:00 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.zippynet.iol.net.au To: Jonas Eriksson cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no more telnet In-Reply-To: <364BFF7D.1F29202@interact.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The machine went down unexpectantly due to power failure, and came back up > > in its current state. I have never seen that message before. Is a trip > > to the console the only way?? > > You are out of pty's. > Sorry, folks, ... situation is under control. What happened was that somebody repeatedly tried to connect to the host while it was booting and chewed up all the ptys. They eventually timed-out, and I can now telnet normally into the system. The main reason why I posted was because we dont have shell access - users have '/bin/false' in the passwd file, and I didn't think that someone trying to telnet in would be able to DOS me in such a manner ... -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speed Internet Services http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message