From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 22 17:42:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29076 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 17:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-k56flex-0148.jumpnet.com [207.8.6.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28973 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 17:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id TAA10297; Fri, 22 May 1998 19:41:20 -0500 (CDT) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimum pty's=2 ???? References: <01BD850E.8483D2F0@w3svcs.mfn.org> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 22 May 1998 19:41:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: "J.A. Terranson"'s message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 23:16:42 -0500" Message-ID: <857m3d95u8.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "J.A. Terranson" writes: > [=] I realize that they are very low overhead > software constructs, and this is *not* what bothers > me. What I am crazed over is that these guys are > collossal security problems (this machine is about > to be a dedicated IPFW sieve). Am I ok defining > them as "zero"? I'll have to try it I guess... Why not remove it from your config file altogether? > J.A. Terranson > sysadmin@mfn.org > > *** GUNS SAVE LIVES: MAYBE EVEN YOURS. LEARN, LICENSE, *CARRY* *** > > --------------------------------------------- > > OK. Why? When I try to allow just 1, I get a warning that I > > have only defined a single pty, followed by a notice that this > > "error" is being happily corrected - to 32!!! > > > > Is there a reason for this behaviour? > > > Yup. pty's come in small flocks. Accept it. It only eats a few inodes > for the /dev/[pt]tyXX pairs. Pty's are just software constructs. > (Man 4 pty) for more info. > > > 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