[NTLUG:Discuss] SSH Confusion

[MadHat]

On Mar 1, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Chris Cox wrote:
> 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.

Well, it is 256, but it appears that they are not getting released, but 
they are not showing up in ps, but sshd can't allocate them.