Re: telnet sessions (fwd)

Andy Doolittle (andy@server.livingston.com)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:35:47 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, MegaZone wrote:

> Once upon a time Travis Sullivan shaped the electrons to say...
> >Is there a way to kill a telnet session without rebooting and knocking your
> >users offline?
>
> Sounds like you got that. (see below)
>
> >I have my PM set to one telnet session, and that session was locked up. I
>
> Huh? I don't think you can do this. It is either 0 or 4 on telnet -
> off or on. AFAIK we don't have a way to set the number of telnet connects.

You can't set to anything other than 4. You can disable by setting the
telnet port to 0, or obfuscate by setting to something other than 23,
but that's about all. You can set the number of pmconsole connections
to anything from 0-10.

> >into my PM3, any help would be appreciated. I have received help on
> >resetting a session
> >from a telnet prompt, learned something, but still not helping my current
> >issue.
>
> If that is the 'reset x#' command that's all there is. You can do that
> from a telnet, or you can dialin and login as !root, or you can use the
> console port.

Or you can use pmcommand or the equivalent.

> -MZ
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andy
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