User License issue

Mon Oct 31 14:17:39 PDT 2016

Thank you.  This was helpful.  I was using some of these settings already, but you have definitely given me some ideas to try a few more things
Thanks again,Bill Lucca

    On Monday, October 31, 2016 5:05 PM, John McNaughton via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

 License maxing  out
Check FP/GIserver/help/giservconf.html for more  help

Here is some information on setting the timeout values needed in the
user.cfg files
You can also restart the giserver service. That will reset all the users
licenses without restarting filepro

Here is some information that may help you
checkInterval=60000    
Controls how frequently the server checks for hung clients. Enter the
frequency in milliseconds. This setting may be overridden to ensure that it
is never longer than the shorter of the timeout milliseconds (timeout and
timeoutSeconds expressed as milliseconds) or the recall milliseconds

Idleout=0
The Idleout property is used by GIserver to check for users that are
unresponsive, for example someone who went home while still logged in to the
server. If idleout is in effect for that user - when the idleout time has
been exceeded without any client activity the user will be logged out. By
default idleout is turned off. For it to be in effect for any user there
must be an idleout value set (in minutes) in the server properties. It is
specified by the server administrator using the GIserver GUI Administrative
Shell. Individual users can be excluded from this feature by setting a 
doIdleOut=false property in their usename.cfg files .

recall=1
The amount of time in minutes that GIserver will wait for a response to an
ARE YOU AWAKE message to a fileProGI client before it considers that the
client has hung up or disconnected. This is a property that the server
administrator must specify by directly editing the giserver.cfg file.

timeout    =3
The amount of time in minutes that GIserver will wait for no fileProGI
client activity until it sends an ARE YOU AWAKE message to it. This is a
property that the server administrator must specify by directly editing the
giserver.cfg file.

You did not say what version of giserver and fileprogi you were running
The older versions of giserver did not release the users very well.

The server is controlled by its configuration file giserver.cfg which it
looks for in the lib directory under the directory that GIserver is executed
from.
Edit and/or modify the default.cfg and username.cfg files. GIadmin comes
with its own set of help files to explain how to use GIadmin to configure
and monitor GIserver.

John McNaughton

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Today's Topics:

  1. User License issue (WILLIAM LUCCA)
  2. Avoiding lock files (Rami Mantoura)
  3. Re: Avoiding lock files (Jose Lerebours)
  4. Re: Avoiding lock files (Rami Mantoura)
  5. Re: Avoiding lock files (Bill Randall)
  6. Re: Avoiding lock files (Kenneth Brody)

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:06:50 +0000 (UTC)
From: WILLIAM LUCCA <wlucca at prodigy.net>
To: "filepro-list at celestial.com" <filepro-list at celestial.com>
Subject: User License issue
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I have a client who has a 15 user FileproGI license. ?Though they have had
the same version of Filepro for a couple of years now lately they are having
problems with the license number maxing out. ?I am still able to get in
under the non-GI version. ?I have taken precaustions, such as autologgin
them out of FileproGI after a coupl of hours of inactivity and when I look
at what processes are running, there only seems to be 1 or 2 users on
FileproGI, yet they are getting this message. ?Short of rebooting the
server, does anybody have any suggestions as to how to resolve this?
Bill Lucca
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:29:21 -0400
From: Rami Mantoura <ramim at foremostsystems.com>
To: FilePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: Avoiding lock files
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Hi All,

I am sure others have ran into this issue. I have reports that I want to
run, but I always get stuck on lock files. These reports do not do any
updating. I think I have tried using the "-ro" flag for read only, but I
remember running into systems issues.

Does anyone have suggestions or is there something I am missing.

I am running Ubuntu Linux Fp ver 5.7.

Thanks
Rami
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:32:13 -0400
From: Jose Lerebours <fpgroups at gmail.com>
To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: Avoiding lock files
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-u flag may be what you are looking for.

Of course, seeing the entire syntax of your command would help since some
reports run while sitting on a record (@rn "1" - bad practice) ...

On 10/31/2016 03:29 PM, Rami Mantoura via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am sure others have ran into this issue. I have reports that I want to
> run, but I always get stuck on lock files. These reports do not do any
> updating. I think I have tried using the "-ro" flag for read only, but I
> remember running into systems issues.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions or is there something I am missing.
>
> I am running Ubuntu Linux Fp ver 5.7.
>
> Thanks
> Rami
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:54:46 -0400
From: Rami Mantoura <ramim at foremostsystems.com>
To: Jose Lerebours <fpgroups at gmail.com>
Cc: FilePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: Re: Avoiding lock files
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the -u flag does not work. That will still sit on a record that someone is
updating until they exit out.

I am not doing the @rn "1" for this process.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> -u flag may be what you are looking for.
>
> Of course, seeing the entire syntax of your command would help since some
> reports run while sitting on a record (@rn "1" - bad practice) ...
>
>
>
>
> On 10/31/2016 03:29 PM, Rami Mantoura via Filepro-list wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am sure others have ran into this issue. I have reports that I want to
>> run, but I always get stuck on lock files. These reports do not do any
>> updating. I think I have tried using the "-ro" flag for read only, but I
>> remember running into systems issues.
>>
>> Does anyone have suggestions or is there something I am missing.
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu Linux Fp ver 5.7.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rami
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:00:34 -0400
From: Bill Randall <wrandall at fptech.com>
To: Rami Mantoura <ramim at foremostsystems.com>
Cc: FilePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: Re: Avoiding lock files
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PFSKIPLOCKED=nnn

Allows locked records to be skipped after nnn seconds. Records skipped not
included in @rp. (*report)

Version Ref: 4.8

PFSKIPPEDLOG=filename

Log records skipped by PFSKIPLOCKED=nnn. (*report)

Version Ref: 4.8

On 10/31/2016 3:54 PM, Rami Mantoura via Filepro-list wrote:
> the -u flag does not work. That will still sit on a record that someone is
> updating until they exit out.
>
> I am not doing the @rn "1" for this process.
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
>> -u flag may be what you are looking for.
>>
>> Of course, seeing the entire syntax of your command would help since some
>> reports run while sitting on a record (@rn "1" - bad practice) ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/31/2016 03:29 PM, Rami Mantoura via Filepro-list wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am sure others have ran into this issue. I have reports that I want to
>>> run, but I always get stuck on lock files. These reports do not do any
>>> updating. I think I have tried using the "-ro" flag for read only, but I
>>> remember running into systems issues.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have suggestions or is there something I am missing.
>>>
>>> I am running Ubuntu Linux Fp ver 5.7.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Rami
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:09:37 -0400
From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: Rami Mantoura <ramim at foremostsystems.com>
Cc: FilePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: Re: Avoiding lock files
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On 10/31/2016 3:54 PM, Rami Mantoura via Filepro-list wrote:
> the -u flag does not work. That will still sit on a record that someone is
> updating until they exit out.

That's a record lock, and the lockfile has absolutely nothing to do with 
record locks.

If you aren't modifying the file in any way, I believe the "-ro" flag you 
previously mentioned doesn't need to wait for locks, since it's running in 
read-only mode.

Another option is using PFSKIPLOCKED.  Of course, that means the records 
that were locked will be skipped.  Not usually an option you want, but it is

available.

Other than that, you can't update a record that someone else is updating, so

you can't "avoid" the record lock.

> I am not doing the @rn "1" for this process.
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
>> -u flag may be what you are looking for.
>>
>> Of course, seeing the entire syntax of your command would help since some
>> reports run while sitting on a record (@rn "1" - bad practice) ...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/31/2016 03:29 PM, Rami Mantoura via Filepro-list wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am sure others have ran into this issue. I have reports that I want to
>>> run, but I always get stuck on lock files. These reports do not do any
>>> updating. I think I have tried using the "-ro" flag for read only, but I
>>> remember running into systems issues.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have suggestions or is there something I am missing.
>>>
>>> I am running Ubuntu Linux Fp ver 5.7.

-- 
Kenneth Brody

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