faustus@ygdrasil.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) (04/17/91)
This problem must have come up before... I have a 3100 running 4.0. After I log into my machine about 8 times, I get the message "too many users: try again later". I thought the way to make this go away was "lmf reset" but it doesn't seem to work. What should I do? Is this some sort of kernel compile-time constant? Thanks, Wayne
frank@urz.unibas.ch (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr16.193417.25601@agate.berkeley.edu>, faustus@ygdrasil.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes: > This problem must have come up before... I have a 3100 running 4.0. > After I log into my machine about 8 times, I get the message "too many > users: try again later". I thought the way to make this go away was > "lmf reset" but it doesn't seem to work. What should I do? Is this > some sort of kernel compile-time constant? Thanks, > > Wayne Yep, it is. First you must have a license for more than 8 users. (Type license as root on root to verify.) Second you must specify a value greater or equal to the licens number-of-users in the kernel configuration file. Called something like /usr/sys/conf/vax/HOSTNAME or /usr/sys/conf/mips/HOSTNAME. Set the line maxusers xx to the appropriate value. Last "doconfig". .____________________________________________________________________________. | | | _____ __ _____ Robert Frank | | | / | Institut fuer Informatik | | | | | University of Basel, Switzerland | | | -+- | | | | | | Mittlere Strasse 142 | | __|__ | __|__ CH-4056 Basel | | | | frank@urz.unibas.ch tel. + (061) 321 99 67 fax + (061) 321 99 15 | |____________________________________________________________________________|
frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) (04/17/91)
> This problem must have come up before... I have a 3100 running 4.0. > After I log into my machine about 8 times, I get the message "too many > users: try again later". I thought the way to make this go away was > "lmf reset" but it doesn't seem to work. What should I do? Is this > some sort of kernel compile-time constant? Thanks, It sounds like you have an eight user license. If you login, rlogin, telnet, etc., into your machine eight separate times, that's eight users. The system counts the number of logins; each login is one user. If you need more than one terminal session, but don't want to login again, you can fork off xterms or dxterms with the DISPLAY set back to some X display device. Frank
jpyll@lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Y. de Louraille) (04/19/91)
> > > After I log into my machine about 8 times, I get the message "too many > > users: try again later". I thought the way to make this go away was > It sounds like you have an eight user license. If you login, rlogin, telnet, > ......... > one terminal session, but don't want to login again, you can fork off xterms > or dxterms with the DISPLAY set back to some X display device. > > Frank Frank is right in principle, but "you don't have to login again" is wrong since you don't have to login at all! We have plenty of DECstation 3100 with only 2 user-licenses and we access them all remotely by rsh'ing. example: xhost + remote; rsh remote xterm -d $YOURDISPLAY & On some of our machines, if you do w, even though we have a 2 user license, you might see 10+ users! -- Philip Yzarn de Louraille Internet: jpyll@chevron.com Research Support Division Unix & Open Systems Chevron Information & Technology Co. Tel: (213) 694-9232 P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446 Fax: (213) 694-7709
barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr17.105520.1507@urz.unibas.ch> frank@urz.unibas.ch writes: >First you must have a license for more than 8 users. >(Type license as root on root to verify.) When I type "license" as root, I get the answer: System supports 2 users (the default). But this is wrong -- we have an unlimited users license. (Ultrix 4.0.) Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett, Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University | | INTERNET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | | COMPUSERVE: >internet:barrett@cs.jhu.edu | UUCP: barrett@jhunix.UUCP | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////
frank@urz.unibas.ch (04/22/91)
In article <8061@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > In article <1991Apr17.105520.1507@urz.unibas.ch> frank@urz.unibas.ch writes: >>First you must have a license for more than 8 users. >>(Type license as root on root to verify.) > > When I type "license" as root, I get the answer: > > System supports 2 users (the default). > > But this is wrong -- we have an unlimited users license. (Ultrix 4.0.) > O.K. looks like the RISC and VAXstations have different Ultrixes than "normal" VAXS. There is, however, a so called license management facility lmf which handles all kinds of licenses (at leas on our VAX). Try typing (as root) lmf list and see what you get there. I get something like: # lmf list Product Status Users: Total Active ULTRIX active 16 6 DECNET-ULTRIX active unlimited If this doesn't apply to your system, then you realy must have something else than we do. .____________________________________________________________________________. | | | _____ __ _____ Robert Frank | | | / | Institut fuer Informatik | | | | | University of Basel, Switzerland | | | -+- | | | | | | Mittlere Strasse 142 | | __|__ | __|__ CH-4056 Basel | | | | frank@urz.unibas.ch tel. + (061) 321 99 67 fax + (061) 321 99 15 | |____________________________________________________________________________|
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr22.174733.1519@urz.unibas.ch> frank@urz.unibas.ch writes: > In article <8061@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > > In article <1991Apr17.105520.1507@urz.unibas.ch> frank@urz.unibas.ch writes: > >>First you must have a license for more than 8 users. > >>(Type license as root on root to verify.) > > But this is wrong -- we have an unlimited users license. (Ultrix 4.0.) > > > O.K. looks like the RISC and VAXstations have different Ultrixes than "normal" > VAXS. There is, however, a so called license management facility lmf which > handles all kinds of licenses (at leas on our VAX). ... > If this doesn't apply to your system, then you realy must have something else > than we do. LMF is new with Ultrix 4.x - previous versions used a "simple" license key file mechanism. For compatibilty, newer versions can still use the old key files for the user limit, in addition to LMF facilities. In this case, an administrator may never of had any reason to use LMF. Also, I don't know that LMF knows about the license keys and might report a lower user limit than really pertains... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)