Why we are obsering "fatal too many listen sockets Enlarge MAX LISTEN SOCKETS" error after increasing listen port limit in sshd_config ?
Issue
- Getting error "fatal too many listen sockets Enlarge MAX LISTEN SOCKETS" in var/log/secure.
- If we add tmore port and restart sftp service, the service is not starting up
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- ssh
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