>From: "Jonathan Angliss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "David Iyoha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "William R. Mussatto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] time out
>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:51:05 -0500 (CDT)
>
>Hello David,
>On Tuesday, October 07, 2003, David Iyoha wrote...
>
> > Hello,
>
> > thanks for your response.
>
> > I looked in my php.ini file and this is what I saw:
>
> > pfpro.defaulttimeout = 30
>
> > - is this the right variable?
> > - is the 30 in minutes or seconds?
>
>Unfortunately you've been misguided into what you should be looking at.
>I'm assuming you're after a setting that tells the session to die if they
>don't access/use it after a set time correct? The variables William
>suggested you should look at are for the time limit a script is allowed to
>run for before considered 'unhealthy' for a system, and terminate itself.
>The later option is for useful for setting a safe time for a script to run
>before it assumes it got stuck in an infinite loop if it stops doing
>anything (long waits on other processes for example).
>
>The variable you really want to be looking at is:
>
> session.gc_maxlifetime
>
>That tells you the life of a session. This is usually set in seconds, and
>is the variable used to tell PHP how long a session is allowed to be
>inactive for before killing it off. Here are the details:
>
>,----- [ http://www.php.net/session ]
>| session.gc_maxlifetime integer
>|
>| session.gc_maxlifetime specifies the number of seconds after which |
> data will be seen as 'garbage' and cleaned up.
>|
>| Note: If you are using the default file-based session handler, |
> your filesystem must keep track of access times (atime). |
>Windows FAT does not so you will have to come up with another |
>way to handle garbage collecting your session if you are stuck |
>with a FAT filesystem or any other fs where atime tracking is |
>not available.
>`-----
>
>As a note to this, there are plugins that allow you to alter this
>timeout on the fly, and easy ways of getting around this simple
>timeout is to set the folder refresh to anything under the value set for
>the above variable. For example mine is set to 5 minute refresh, and I can
>leave it open all day. If I shut that off, I'd have to keep logging in.
>
>--
>Jonathan Angliss
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>
>
>
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