From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 10 07:15:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA09912 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from insane.asylum.org ([208.13.58.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA09900 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:15:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dlr@insane.asylum.org) Received: (from dlr@localhost) by insane.asylum.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) id KAA13641; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:16:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980110101559.50311@insane.asylum.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:15:59 -0500 From: dlr To: efinley@castlenet.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Number of tty's References: <19980110001458.53008@insane.asylum.org> <34bc1595.108602463@castlenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74e In-Reply-To: <34bc1595.108602463@castlenet.com>; from Elliot Finley on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 06:31:14AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 06:31:14AM +0000, Elliot Finley wrote: > 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? man MAKEDEV says: tty# standard PC COM ports The i386 supports the following devices. Where a device name is followed by a hash sign (``#''), the hash sign must be replaced by a unit number. so i did MAKEDEV tty1 thru tty9. This took it from 49 up to 67 tty's. Is there a way to increase this, or is this the maximum number of connections (i don't think that it would be the max number). thanks, dave