This was the first reply and it did the trick.
Thanks
Daryl Fallin
dfallin_at_garfield.leesummit.k12.mo.us
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From: Phil VanHelden[SMTP:vanhelde_at_odo.msoe.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 1997 4:40 AM
To: Daryl Fallin
Subject: Re: All Ports are busy
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Daryl Fallin wrote:
> I have users that are telneting into my DEC Alpha 3000 axp
> running DU 4.0a.
>
> We just upgraded to this from version 3.0, but now I have users
> calling me about having a problem with "All Ports are busy"
> when they are trying to telnet into my system.
>
> I check the number of users connected and it is about 25 - 30
> when this happens... I know that I should be able to have
> more telnet sessions than this at one time.
You probably don't have enough tty/pty ports. to add more, use
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV pty#
where # is the set of ports that you want to add. 2->ttyr, 3->ttys, etc.
That should work...
Received on Tue Jan 07 1997 - 18:10:26 NZDT