From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 20 06:48:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA03874 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 06:48:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA03864 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 06:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA03422; Tue, 20 May 1997 09:47:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:47:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Khetan Gajjar cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with stelnetd - all network ports in use In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 May 1997, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > > >I've managed to get SSL-Telnet working on my machine, with one > >slight problem - it keeps moaning about "All network ports in use." > [snip] > > Update : it appears to occur while running screen. If screen > isn't being run, then it works great! Is stelnetd only able to use a subset of ptys, and that those ptys are already in use by screen? I recall an old problem with rlogind and/or telnetd and/or login not knowing about ptys in the upper range pty[PQRS]* . I don't know if this is still a problem, but I now compile screen to use ptys in the order pty[PQRSpqrs]* . The upper 128 are used first, leaving the lower 128 free for other programs. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"