Ted's hunch is right.

I have just started three copies of Reflection with a VT connection, and
looked at HPUSERCOUNT after each one.

HPUSERCOUNT increments immediately after the MPE/IX: prompt is
displayed, and before logon.

It does, however, decrement HPUSERCOUNT when either a BYE is issued, or
the Reflection screen is ungracefully closed down.

The same behaviour is true when making a Telnet connection (using
QCTerm).

I also confirmed this on two systems, with identical results.

The Console logon doesn't count.

Neil Harvey



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Ashton [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 10:55 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: MPE 6.0 and HPUSERLIMIT
>
> Thus it was written in the epistle of Keven Miller,
> > I have a 918DX on 6.0 ( 8 user license).
> > I have developers coming into it with both VT (Reflections) and
> Telnet
> > (Reflections).
> > Currently there are 4 sessions, 1 VT (NSCONTROL STATUS=USERS) and 3
> telnet
> > (Oh, and the console -- 5 sessions)
> > Currently, from the console as OPERATOR.SYS I showvar HPUSER@
> >         HPUSERCOUNT 8
> >         HPUSERLIMIT 8
> > And I cannot get another logon.
> >
> > I will try to test some of this when I can get sole access to the
> box.
> > But my gut feel here is that something new (telnet) isn't
> decrementing the
> > HPUSERCOUNT.
> >
> > Any body else wish to test this?
> >
> > +=====================================
> >  Keven Miller   KC7LYD
> >  [log in to unmask]   (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
> > +=====================================
>
> Keven,
>   Are there any VT "sessions" sitting at a login prompt but not logged
> in?
> I don't have any proof, but I've had some strange user limit things
> that lead
> me to wonder if a termulator running VT and sitting at the login
> prompt takes
> up a session in the count.  (Perhaps it's not VT.  Perhaps simply
> hitting
> return and getting a login prompt takes up a session until the prompt
> times
> out and Minisoft, in repeatedly renewing the prompt (why they do this,
> I'm not
> sure) is causing this behaviour to become a problem).
>
> Ted
> --
> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist
> University
>           ==========================================================
> Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of
> the
> human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent
> happenings.
>                          -- Whitehead, Alfred North