Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:04:30 -0400 From: Jared Chenkin <chenkinj@voyager.bxscience.edu> To: Bob K <melange@yip.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: your mail Message-ID: <200007210104.e6L14U658722@voyager.bxscience.edu> In-Reply-To: (Your message of Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:00:18 EDT.) <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007202055580.48187-100000@localhost>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007202055580.48187-100000@localhost>, Bob K writes: >On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Jared Chenkin wrote: > >> Random question, but do you actually log out or do you just close the >> ssh window? I notice that very often users on my system simply close >> their telnet windows and the process does not die (namely the shell). >> It became a real annoyance when telnetd(8) would start turning away >> successful logins, complaining that all ttys were used up. > >I find a short, quick wall(1) whenever ttys are running low is a handy >cure for this problem, as the connections are reset by the hosts when they >receive the output (assuming that telnet has indeed been closed). If you >know the usage patterns you could even make it an early-morning cron >job... > >-- >Bob <melange@yip.org> >"Reality is the only word in the language that should always be used > in quotes" - The Amityville Horror III > Interesting...actually idled(1) handles the problem quite nicely as these "log-ins" to rack up some serious idle time :) Live Large, Jared Chenkin <chenkinj@bxcience.edu> (AIM: DevNull24) Networked Systems Administrator Bronx Science Computing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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