Re: idletimeout & OS X question

[John Fieber <jfieber@slis.indiana.edu>]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> We have been experimenting with allowing OS X boxes to get their NIS 
> schema from our openldap server.  We've noticed a problem with them 
> opening a connection that never gets closed.

The generally accepted band-aid is to do a "killall DirectoryService" 
(on the OSX box) from a cron job periodically.  This clears out 
accumulation zombie connections and also heaps prevent other LDAP 
related DirectoryService bugs from appearing.

Yes, very ugly, but until Apple actually gets serious about making OSX 
work well in an existing IT infrastructure, there are lots of ugly 
things like this to deal with.

Visit www.macosxlabs.org if you have not already.  There was a webcast 
there yesterday on this sort of thing...I was busy at teh time so I'll 
have to watch the archive version to see if there are any better 
band-aids...

-john