[ILUG] Quick one lads - Increasing users in telnetd

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:13:16PM +0000, 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 I increase this value to say 250, will this increase the number of
> allowed telnet sessions? Will I also waste loads of resources? 

as paul said, put the "instances = 250" line into the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
file.

as far as what it means, an excerpt from the xinetd.conf man page:

       instances        determines the number of servers that can
                        be simultaneously active  for  a  service
                        (the  default  is no limit). The value of
                        this attribute can be either a number  or
                        UNLIMITED  which  means  that there is no
                        limit.

many files in /etc have man pages.  not as many as there should be, but
it's getting better.

kevin

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