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Subject: Number of tty's
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I just got the following message on a freebsd machine:

telnetd: All network ports in use.                        


I'm having problems with secure shell leaving dead shells around.

Is there a way i can increase the number of logins accepted?

I have ptys set to 256 in the kernel. Do I need to create new ttys?

There are 49 tty* found in /dev.  Do i need to increase this somehow?

dave racette