Exceeded User Count

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:14:28AM -0800, George wrote:
> This has probably been discussed a zillion times, but checking thru my
> archives I cannot find anything on this problem. Except for some idle out
> ftp conditions that cause a utmp problem when exiting filePro with the
> delete key.
> 
> 16 User licenses exceeded error message from filePro.
> 
> ps -ef and w shows only one user on the system.
> 
> Unix shut down and same problem exists.
> 
> Kill the process number used by the single user for dclerk. Everything
> appears back to normal..
> 
> SCO Unix 5.07 with 40 user license and filePro with a 16 user licenses.
> TCP/IP connections to pc's with various Windoze clients.
> 
> Any help out there.

please post more information next time it happens- run:
ps -ef | egrep -e "clerk|report|dxmaint" | grep -v grep

you could have cron jobs or background sessions from "system" or other
command eating up licenses that you don't realize.

and

ipcs -om
(look at NATTCH column)
 
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-Joe Chasan-                      Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
joe at magnatechonline.com           Hicksville, NY - USA
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