by Could anyone help with a problem we are having?
As part of a WWW service we are setting up, we hope to provide
scripted access to remote telnettable services from our server: we will
do this by telnetting to a specific port on our server which will call
up the relevant script for the session required. We have 500 such scripts,
and so will need 500 port numbers for this.
Having added these services to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf we
have experienced a major system crash - there was no problem when these
extra services were removed.
Can anyone suggest possible reasons and remedies? Could we be duplicating
ports (in which case, is there a way to check on this easily)? Or could
there be a maximum number of ports allowed (and if so, is this configurable
so that the maximum could be raised)?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Richard
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