LINUX.IE, website of the Irish Linux Users' Group
Tux rules!

   
Home
New Users
Articles
Download
Projects
Community
Vendors

  Print Version
Email to...
 
Archives:


planetILUG

Recent News

News Archive


Join the
ILUG
on FaceBook


Join the
ILUG
on LinkedIn


Join the
ILUG SETI
Group



















 
 :: Mailing Lists

[ILUG] Quick one lads - Increasing users in telnetd

[ILUG] Quick one lads - Increasing users in telnetd

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Tue Nov 23 21:21:30 GMT 2004


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Conor Wynne wrote:

> I am not sure what the value 60 is exactly, I assume its 60 xinetd 
> instances and that each service within has a number of sessions it 
> can have? Assumption is a great thing.

If only xinetd.conf had a man page that documented it.

> If I increase this value to say 250, will this increase the number of
> allowed telnet sessions? Will I also waste loads of resources?

If you increase the one in the default section, no. It will increase 
allowed number of /all/ services.

Try adding 'instances 250' to the telnet definition only.

regards,
-- 
Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
History is on our side (as long as we can control the historians).



More information about the ILUG mailing list
Read this without the formatting.
                                                                                                    

 

Hosted by HEAnet


Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds, used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance of this highly praised website. Looking for the Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
RSS Version
Powered by Dell