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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net>
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Subject: Re: problem with telnetd
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> Our web server intermittently stops accepting telnet requests with a "all
> network ports in use" error.
> 
> Now, we've compiled the kernel for
> 
> pseudo-device   pty     16
> 
> and all the devices appear is /dev/ptyp*
> 
> Now, only four people have telnet access to this web server, and they're
> all within 10 feet of me.

What terminals are they connecting to?  xterms suck up pty's too.  Run `w'
and look at the TTY field. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major