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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


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