[NTLUG:Discuss] SSH Confusion

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Mon Mar 1 18:40:17 CST 2004


MadHat wrote:
> The issue has something to do with the TTYs (more specifically PTYs) as 
> far as I can tell.  Anyone know of a way to see what PTYs are available 
> for allocation or what PTYs the OS think are in use?

/proc should have the info on what are in use (can be seen with ps).
Number of ptys defaults to 256 (or was it 128?) in the kernel config.





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