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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: telnetd: all ports in use
Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:11:26 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Cc: Tom Daniels <tdaniels@his.com>

(Cc: to Tom)

Tom Daniels <tdaniels@his.com> writes:

> I have a machine at work which tells me that all the
> telnet ports are in use when more than one person tries to telnet
> to it.

Maybe you have too few ptys.  This is a configurable parameter in the
kernel config file.  It's not only telnet that consumes ptys, also
xterm, emacsen's shell and gdb mode, script(1), to name a few.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)