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From: frank@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: too many users
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.105520.1507@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 17 Apr 91 09:55:20 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.193417.25601@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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In article <1991Apr16.193417.25601@agate.berkeley.edu>, faustus@ygdrasil.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
> This problem must have come up before...  I have a 3100 running 4.0.
> After I log into my machine about 8 times, I get the message "too many
> users: try again later".  I thought the way to make this go away was
> "lmf reset" but it doesn't seem to work.  What should I do?  Is this
> some sort of kernel compile-time constant?  Thanks,
> 
> 	Wayne

Yep, it is. 
First you must have a license for more than 8 users.
(Type license as root on root to verify.)

Second you must specify a value greater or equal to the licens number-of-users
in the kernel configuration file. Called something like
/usr/sys/conf/vax/HOSTNAME or
/usr/sys/conf/mips/HOSTNAME. Set the line maxusers        xx to the appropriate
value.

Last "doconfig".

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