Re: [Sheflug] pts/x (fwd)

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 03 Mar 2001 14:19:14 +0000, Will Newton wrote:
> > Yep, I also thought so, but... it looks like there appear holes in the
> > sequence (with time): on one of these 2 machines there is a hole at pts/2,
> > if, say, you have pts/1 and pts/3, then you close pts/1 and start opening
> > new ones, they appear in the following order: 1,4,5,6,... - 2 never gets
> > filled... On the other machine I currently have holes at
> 
> In 2.4.2 the code is at linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c:1328.
> 
> Looks like this shouldn't happen. What kernel are you using?


In addition to Will's question, can I also add:

    * are you allowing people to telnet / ssh into the boxes?
    * are people able to login through a masq'ing server or some other
    NATing router?
    * have you done an 'lsof | grep /dev/pts' at all?
    * are you running any other services which may aquire a pts?

Other than that, no, it sounds odd, but I would bet there is a reason
for it. 

Cheers,

Alex.


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