Hello Anthony. The connection table is walked and idle are connections dropped when poll or select return non-0; you need to have a new incoming connection or activity on one of the established connections for the idle ones to get dropped. Not sure where a searchable archive of this list is located... Ulf Anthony Mizon wrote: > Hi > > Im hoping this question has not been asked before but I cant find the > mailing list archives to confirm .. do they exist? > > Anyway .. I am trying to close down idle client connections that have > been idle for 30 minutes a quick check of the directory server admin > guide and the code confirms that a setting for nsslapd-idletimeout: 1800 > should do the trick under cn=config. Not so it seems! > > I am expecting to see the socket closed down after 30 minutes of > inactivity .. I can confirm that this is not taking place with a simple > tcp dump running on the directory server machine. > > Have I misunderstood what this option does? > > Many thanks > > Anthony > > -- > > Anthony Mizon, <amizon at saviso.com> > http://www.saviso.com > Tel: +44 (0) 845 00 66 515 > Fax: +44 (0) 845 00 66 525 > Mobile: +44 (0) 7968 070 117 > Saviso Consulting Limited, > St. John's Innovation Centre, > Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS > > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 6097 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20071221/3ccc0658/attachment.bin