Re: VPN and "zombie" telnet pseudo ttys

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 11/17/04


Date: 17 Nov 2004 14:08:03 -0500
To: pet7447@sbcglobal.net

RP typed (on Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:24:58AM +0000):
| On 2 Nov 2004 12:41:52 -0500, Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:
| |RP typed (on Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:54:31PM +0000):
| || Main Office: SCO OSR 5.0.6 with LAN, DSL Internet connection,
| || static IP address, VPN router
| || Branch Office: Win2000 Prof with LAN, DSL Internet connection, static
| || IP address, VPN router
| || I have a VPN tunnel from the branch office to the main office. I use a
| || telnet login (Termulator telnet client) from the branch to the main
| || office and run a character based application at the main
| || office. When I login at the main office, I get assigned a pseudo tty,
| || ttyp0 for the first login, ttyp1 for the next, and so on.
| ||
| || Unfortunately, I occasionally lose the DSL connection momentarily, and
| || I lose the telnet login at the main office. This causes a problem:
| ||
| || When I login again, I get assigned the next pseudo tty, i.e.ttyp1
| || because the ttyp0 is not released by the system. That is, the who
| || command still shows the first login, ttyp0, as connected. Since I have
| || several users logging into the main office, I quickly reach my 5 user
| || license limit.
| ||
| || Any ideas how I can prevent these "zombie" logins?
| |
| |Try the 'ptyclean' script at ftp.armory.com.

| ptyclean gives the following message:
|
| ..gawk: error opening /usr/lib/libm.so.1
|
| Where can I get the above file?

Where did you get your gawk?

-- 
JP


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