Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:37:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: dlr <dlr@insane.asylum.org> Cc: efinley@castlenet.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Number of tty's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112223615.22079a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980110101559.50311@insane.asylum.org>
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On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, dlr wrote: > 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). Try running /dev/MAKEDEV pty256 That should be plenty for ya :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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