[Opensim-dev] Is the message "Please wait 5 minutes" still needed?

[Melanie]

On standalone, kick & continue is right. In grid mode,  wait  5 
minutes is right. We will have to differentiate.

Melanie


Frisby, Adam wrote:
> Make it standard.
> 
> +1
> 
> Adam
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
>> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Arthur Valadares
>> Sent: Friday, 29 May 2009 2:59 PM
>> To: OpenSim-Dev
>> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Is the message "Please wait 5 minutes" still
>> needed?
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I wanted to consult you all about this matter, even though I have
>> already committed some related code. I will gladly change it if we
>> decide to do things differently.
>> 
>> Once upon a time, there seemed to be a necessity that you had to wait 5
>> minutes if you crashed and tried to log back in. Those were the days
>> before my time, tales that the elder tells us by the fireside. After
>> these days, when I started messing around with OpenSim, there was a bug
>> that would kick you after a few minutes if you tried to log back on
>> without waiting. This was also fixed (thanks Crista!), which leads me
>> to
>> my question. Why are we still getting this message?
>> 
>> Well, the only purpose I can think of is it warns you that you either
>> crashed last time or that someone is using your account. Either way,
>> something went wrong and the user might want to know that.
>> 
>> So the code I committed puts an option in standalone that allows you to
>> skip this message and just let OpenSim kick the old user and connect
>> the
>> new one, kind of like what happens in messengers if you logon from a
>> different location. This is very useful when you have softwares that
>> encapsulate the login process and doesn't want to leave the user
>> looking
>> at the viewer's login page with a failed message.
>> 
>> So, should this become standard and just skip and kick, or should we
>> leave it up to configuration? Opinions please..
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Arthur Valadares <arthursv at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> 
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