Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:33:24 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: telnetd - out of terminals Message-ID: <199907140903.SAA54857@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907141524230.9722-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au> from Dean Hollister at "Jul 14, 1999 03:26:42 pm"
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> I'm receiving the error that telnetd is out of ports, despite plenty ports > being available: [List snipped] > However, it only gets as far as ttypb and then says it has run out. Is it > possible to remedy this? > > /etc/ttys has plenty allocated network ttys, well past the port numbers > above. ttypb = 12 network ttys. Add 4 virtual consoles and we get 16 -- the magic number for the number of pty devices compiled into the GENERIC kernel. Sounds like you need to alter your kernel config and rebuild it, the relevant line is: pseudo-device pty 16 You might want to increase it to 64, say. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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