Re: Problem with rlogins

Allen J. Newton (anewton@basis.com)
Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:11:05 -0600 (MDT)

Jeff Cartwright wrote:
> Subject: Re: Problem with rlogins
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, Randy Byers wrote:
>
> > Everything works great, except for one thing. The in.rlogind and csh
> > processes don't die on the Linux box after the customer hangs up. I do a
> > mass kill of these sessions a couple times a day for people who are no
> > longer logged in. This is getting a tad tiring.
>
>
> I'm having the same thing on a SCO box .. intermittantly ..
> I'm pretty sure it is a SCO problem....
> when this happens to us .. Sco won;t spawn new rlogind processes...!!
> We are still not sure how to deal with it..

Sounds like you're running out of either pseudo-ttys (/dev/ttyp*) or TCP
connections (default for SCO is 256 -- which isn't hard to exceed,
depending on what other network software you're using).

Try reconfiguring your kernel for more tcp connections and/or more pttys...

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