Hi Dave, I don't think you are hitting the fossology timeout (which is very long - 8 hours). I think you are probably hitting the PHP session timeout, which by default on my system, php 5.3.3-4, that timeout is set to 24 minutes (default). There are two enforcers in php to remove "old" sessions. The first is a cron, the second is the php garbage collector (see steps 1 and 2 below).
In the following explanation, I'm using file paths from my debian system. Your OS may put them somewhere else. 1) /etc/cron.d/php5 php installs a cron that runs every 30 minutes to delete your login session if it has gone unused for 24 minutes or more. Here I've commented out the default command and changed it to only run at 7 am. # Look for and purge old sessions every 30 minutes #09,39 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm # purge only at 7 am * 7 * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm 2) /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini If you looked closely you probably noticed that the above command didn't mention anything about the 24 minutes. That's because it is buried in the maxlifetime file, which gets its information from the php config file, php.ini. So in php.ini set these variables: session.gc_probability = 1 session.gc_divisor = 1000 session.gc_maxlifetime = 28800 What those mean is that the php garbage collector will run only every 1/1000 times that php is invoked. When it runs it will delete sessions that haven't been used in 28800 seconds (8 hrs) or more. The default maxlifetime is 1440 seconds (24 minutes). I hope that all makes sense. Thank you Dave, Drago, Michael, Matt, and all, for your comments. Bob Gobeille _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list fossology@fossology.org http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
