From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 2: 4: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D00153AC for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 02:04:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA54857; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:33:24 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199907140903.SAA54857@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: telnetd - out of terminals In-Reply-To: from Dean Hollister at "Jul 14, 1999 03:26:42 pm" To: Dean Hollister Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:33:24 +0930 (CST) Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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