Re: License daemon

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > Graine Milner wrote: > > We've recently done an upgrade from 4.1 to Online 5.01 > > Do you really love antique software so much? > You should be upgrading to 5.10, not 5.01. > > > (without the aid of the long-since-vanished installation manual) > > on SunOS4.1.3, and were unexpectedly confronted with messages about > > installing/running the license daemon. Not having the manual, we're > > a bit confused, and processes connecting to the database are > > generating the message > > 'Cannot connect to license server' > > Sounds like an excellent reason to change versions. I've not got any > information stashed away on the licence server stuff -- it was both > released and unreleased in 1991, I think (the 5.0 manual I have is > dated December 1990, so 5.01 would probably have been released the > next year). > > > Everything appears to be running OK despite this, but the messages > > are unnerving and keep the console rather busier than we'd like. > > > > I've had a look though the newsgroup archives and have since > > discovered that the license daemon was a bad idea and was swiftly > > discarded, only being around for Online 5.01, but not much about > > how to deal with the pesky thing. > > The best way to deal with it is to (yawn) upgrade. > > -- > Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) > Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN > #include <disclaimer.h> Vague memory of previous postings on this... It sounds like the Highland FLEXlm license manager we have for SPSS. All the commands begin lm*. Yes, our license manager occasionally fails and I have a daemon of my own to check that it is still running and restart it if it isn't. (A daemon-watcher daemon!) The following is a copy of the code that starts and stops the license manager on my system at bootup: --- cut here --- # lmgrd startup, copied from Installation Instructions page 13 # /etc/rc2.d/S96lmgrd is linked to this LIC_DIR=/usr/SPSS/licenses LIC_BIN=/usr/SPSS/bin if [ ! -f $LIC_BIN/lmgrd -o ! -d $LIC_DIR -o ! -f $LIC_DIR/license.dat ] then echo "lmgrd startup: cannot start" exit fi case "$1" in 'start') # start the license manager $LIC_BIN/lmgrd -c $LIC_DIR/license.dat >> $LIC_DIR/license.log 2>&1 & ;; 'stop') # stop the license manager $LIC_BIN/lmdown -c $LIC_DIR/license.dat -q >> $LIC_DIR/license.log 2>&1 ;; esac --- cut here --- Hope it's useful until you upgrade. -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 --- If all else fails, read the instructions AND the release notes. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/