Hi Mark,

In that same showjob, check your slimit and adjust with the limit command
if necessary.  Don't worry, the sysadmin is relatively easy once you
understand the concepts.

Regards,

Frank

On Fri, 21 May 2004 06:19:13 -0500, Mark Undrill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>"Peter Smithson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
>news:MPG.1b17eafd9e30383d9897b8@News.Individual.NET...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've just about got the hang of using JCL and intrinsics and now
>I've
>> got to do some sysadmin!
>>
>> We've got an MPE 7.0 system which is used by, at most, 5 people.
>All of
>> a sudden, only one person can log in.  The rest get the message
>"Can't
>> initiate new sessions now".
>>
>> I used my years of experience with UNIX and Windows and thought a
>reboot
>> would help but it didn't. By the way, after reading about "shutdown"
>I
>> did "shutdown system;restart", it displayed some messages about
>stopping
>> things and then just sat there.  I'm not sure if it's supposed to
>say
>> something like "I've finished now - you can turn me off" but I
>> eventually powered it off and on.  So the "restart" bit didn't work
>or
>> it's just not shutting down cleanly - maybe it's related.
>>
>> Anyway, back to the main problem.  What can I do about it?  I've
>done a
>> few searches but have not found anything of use.  There was stuff
>about
>> reconfiguring (which I couldn't get to work anyway) but it's not a
>> config problem - it used to work.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Peter
>> --
>
>Do a :SHOWVAR HPUSER@ and look at the values for HPUSERCOUNT &
>HPUSERLIMIT. HPUSERCOUNT is the number of users currently logged on
>and HPUSERLIMIT is the maximum allowed on your system. We've seen
>HPUSERCOUNT get corrupted a few times but a re-boot usually clears it.
>What sort of START did you do? I think you'll need to do a >START
>NORECOVERY.
>
>HTH
>
>Mark
>
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