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I can help you sort of. &nbsp;I had this problem when I managed a Linux box for a high school. &nbsp;They had a lot of students trying to connect and would get similar errors. &nbsp;The workaround I did was to create more ttys for them to log in on. &nbsp;To do this, you need to run the /dev/MAKEDEV script. &nbsp;I don't have access to this right now, so I can't give you the syntax, but if you make more ttys your problem should go away.<br />
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To get the syntax, look at te script and there may even be a man page. &nbsp;I hope this helps enough!<br />
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chris<br />

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I can help you sort of.  I had this problem when I managed a Linux box for a high school.  They had a lot of students trying to connect and would get similar errors.  The workaround I did was to create more ttys for them to log in on.  To do this, you need to run the /dev/MAKEDEV script.  I don't have access to this right now, so I can't give you the syntax, but if you make more ttys your problem should go away.

To get the syntax, look at te script and there may even be a man page.  I hope this helps enough!

chris


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Ihave plenty of pttys, and I am the only one telnetting to the<br />
box--so it is not a matter of having some, but not enough.<br />

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Ihave plenty of pttys, and I am the only one telnetting to the
box--so it is not a matter of having some, but not enough.


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When I try to telnet into a Linux box I'm working on, I get the<br />
message &quot;telnetd: All network ports in use&quot;. Everything seems<br />
to be working aside from that (ftp, finger, etc), except<br />
rlogin gives me a &quot;out of ptys&quot; error.
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When I try to telnet into a Linux box I'm working on, I get the
message "telnetd: All network ports in use". Everything seems
to be working aside from that (ftp, finger, etc), except
rlogin gives me a "out of ptys" error.

Telnetd: All network ports in use

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.