Watchdog & Unwanted logouts.

John Andrianoff

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Feb 5, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/5/96

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We have a workstation on one of our HS LANs (3.12) to which is attache a
4-line voice mail system. It gets logged-out over the weekend. I've set
the watchdog parameters to max, but this still happens. Is there a way to
turn watchdog off just for this one user? Then we could let watchdog do
what it should for all of the other "idle" users.

TIA
John

Todd Dayton

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Feb 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/8/96

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John Andrianoff wrote:
>
> We have a workstation on one of our HS LANs (3.12) to which is attache a
> 4-line voice mail system. It gets logged-out over the weekend. I've set
> the watchdog parameters to max, but this still happens. Is there a way to
> turn watchdog off just for this one user? Then we could let watchdog do
> what it should for all of the other "idle" users.

Are you using an Intel Etherexpress NIC? If so, replace that
puppy...they were always getting clobbered by watchdogs.

Jason Sclater

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Feb 12, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/12/96

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We have watchdog enabled but users don't get logged off. Could this be
because they have the Windows screen saver running? Does anyone know a
way of still logging off idle users who are using the screen saver?

Marcel Cox

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Feb 14, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/14/96

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Watchdog are not used to log idle users off, but to clear connections
for stations that are switched off.

Marcel

Sue Forslev

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Feb 21, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/21/96

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Jason Sclater <J.Sc...@rgu.ac.uk> wrote:

>We have watchdog enabled but users don't get logged off. Could this be
>because they have the Windows screen saver running? Does anyone know a
>way of still logging off idle users who are using the screen saver?

The watchdog doesn't log off users that are actually logged in. It
just deletes connections for workstations that are turned off or cut
off from the network in some way.

Sue Forslev
http://www.well.com/user/sforslev/

Philip Chee

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Feb 21, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/21/96

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In article <311A8F...@mnsinc.com> tda...@mnsinc.com writes:
>John Andrianoff wrote:

>> We have a workstation on one of our HS LANs (3.12) to which is attache a
>> 4-line voice mail system. It gets logged-out over the weekend. I've set
>> the watchdog parameters to max, but this still happens. Is there a way to

>Are you using an Intel Etherexpress NIC? If so, replace that

>puppy...they were always getting clobbered by watchdogs.

Strange. We've been using Intels for years from the original Etherexpress
16 to the latest Pro/100 and we've never seen any of them causing watchdog
tiemouts. In fact we haven't seen *any* watchdog timeouts on active
stations.

Philip
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