Constantly running out of sessionid's.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 08:12 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Harald Hannelius wrote:
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> > Oh yes, but I (and the helldesk in particular) just love to be able to use 
> > last, finger, w, who and friends to find out who has been using what.
> > 
> > We are now nearing the limit:
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> > # sessionids.sh 
> > tdb> tdb> 3568 records totalling 5537536 bytes
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> > (waiting with my fingers in my ears) :)
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> > Is there a bug that doesn't free sessionid's, or do we just have too many 
> > users/computers?
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> You should be able to set MAX_SESSION_ID to an arbitrary value.
> We should reclaim unused session ids.  So set it to something like
> 10000 or what ever you need.

But wouldn't that break what he uses them for, being utmp?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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