Hi Josh. I found the e-mail setting. I expect that won't do much good when people are using a machine without an e-mail client.
No, we aren't getting any popup notification. But knowing that we should be at least gives us something to investigate. On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:10:59PM -0400, Josh Thompson wrote: > Michael, > > For users with "Send email notifications about reservations" set to > Enabled under User Preferences->General Preferences, the warning > emails should be sent out if the user has an email address set. Email > addresses are generally populated via ldap. If you are not populating > email addresses via ldap, the notifications will not go out. > > There should also be a popup warning at 10 and 5 minutes within the > session on the reserved node. If you are not getting a popup warning, > there is a problem that needs to be looked in to. > > Josh > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Henry Schaffer <h...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > > There is a warning, or a couple of them - from the FAQ. > > "You will receive warnings at 10 minutes and 5 minutes before your > > reservation expires." > > IIRC, you can choose the type of notification, e.g. e-mail or ... I > > think you need to set this in User Preferences (which I don't remember > > how to access. :-) > > > > --henry > > > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Michael Jinks <mji...@uchicago.edu> wrote: > >> We've noticed that when a reservation times out, the system drops its > >> public NIC off the wire without any warning. I can imagine some pretty > >> unhappy users who lose track of time and lose work when they get cut > >> off. Has anyone engineered some kind of warning notice for this? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu > >> University of Chicago IT Services -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688 University of Chicago IT Services
