Re: [SL] SQL Version 2.6.19 has been acting up since the last upgrade. We have to keep inputting our password all the time.

[Stroller <lin...@my...>]

On 18 Nov 2006, at 03:25, Tom Diehl wrote:
> ...
>> I seem to recall that I too had a silly timeout figure. It was either
>> 99999999999999 or 0 - setting it to comething like 3600 (in admin.pl
>>> username) resolved the issue for me.
>
> But that still means you have to login every hour.

Um.. only if you're not using it, of course. Try 36000 - 10 hours -  
instead, or whatever you like.

I honestly had this same problem when I upgraded from c 2.6.12 to  
2.6.19.

It was extremely annoying and the symptoms EXACTLY met the  
descriptions: "I'll logon and then immediatly be presented with a  
timeout / please logon screen" and "it gets into a loop and asks for  
the passwd everytime I try to get another screen. logging into BOTH  
the meny frame and the main frame seems to satisfy it."

My timeout was also set to a "silly" number - as many 99999999999999s  
as I could fit in the box, I think.

Setting the timeout to a more reasonable number resolved the issue  
for me.

If this is a problem for you, start by setting the timeout to an hour  
and then work upwards.

Even having to log in every hour cannot be worse than logging in and  
then getting the "session timeout, please log in" message on the very  
next page. I know how annoying this message is - I too have  
experienced it on a minutely basis.

> I wish Dieter would have a magic value that would disable the  
> thing. It is annoying...
> ...in my environment it is simply an annoyance.

Whining about the problem doesn't help. Documenting the problem and  
saying "the timeout setting works perfectly when it is set below 2^16  
seconds [1], but when it is set above this figure then the user  
experiences inappropriate session timeout messages & logon demands"  
allows people to actually diagnose the issue & maybe resolve it for you.

Stroller.



[1] or 65,536 seconds, 2^32 seconds, 3 hours, 4,294,967,296 seconds  
or whatever.