[Nelug] phpmyadmin and timeouts

[Richard Mortimer]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:47 +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> I've been looking to see if there's a way that I can stop this 
> happening, or at least to get a warning before commiting that the 
> session has timed out, or even somehow retrieving the SQL statement that 
> had failed and re-running it. I got hopeful when I found a tab that said 
> 'SQL History' but it was empty. I've found that my clicking on Home I 
> can a load of system variables but no way of changing them.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction and tell me if it's possible 
> to change the timeout or, ideally, disable it completely? Or if there's 
> a way of retrieving and Insert statement so that I can re-submit it?
Not sure if I have the same version as you but you might try looking at

config.inc.php - specifically... (in /var/www/phpmyadmin)

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity']     = 1800;   // validity of cookie login
(in seconds)


That value is 30 mins. bumping it up higher should help.

Richard


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Richard Mortimer <richm at oldelvet.org.uk>