Re: License daemon

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>