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Re: ------------: xess
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Sep 16 12:08:54 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: 3partysw@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU, ajfox@MIT.EDU, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:46:21 EDT."
<199809161246.IAA00311@nephthys.grey17.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:08:39 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>Hi... can one of you speak to whether the Xess license server is
>supposed to deal with requests from LCS? Oddly, this person seems to
>be trying from 18.52.0.224 (venona.lcs.mit.edu, the machine in the
>mail headers, which is a NetBSD/i386 machine), which I would expect to
>be allowed.
Well, there's definitely something odd going on here. After I wrote an
initial reply (below the line of *s), I tried running Applixware and Tecplot
on our NetBSD machine, newly installed with Athena 8.2.1. Applixware starts
a process (I see an axmain process when I run ps) but the GUI window does
not open. Tecplot prints a single text line in the launch window:
Tecplot 7.0-2-0 - 13:40:20 11-02-96
but then no GUI appears, and no Tecplot process appears to be running.
It also doesn't seem to have connected to the license server, as no log
entry appears.
However Matlab and Xess work. I'm not sure what is going on. Could we
have missed setting a feature that allows NetBSD to run Linux binaries
properly when we installed NetBSD? Can you try Applixware and Tecplot
on another NetBSD machine to see if they work?
Alex
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Original response (before writing the above):
I can't see any reason why it wouldn't run. There is no domain restriction
in the license server. As long as he can reach the license servers (lydian,
gooshi and ziggy- we are using FlexLM in triple redundant mode), it
should give him a license. Just tried it on our NetBSD machine (running
Athena 8.2.1) and it works fine...
Here's some things to check- make sure that $ATHENA_SYS is set
correctly on his machine; make sure AFS is working correctly, and that
it will recognize him as "authuser:rl". Ping the 3 license servers;
try running the previous xess version to see if that works by typing
"xess -ver 3.1"- that release doesn't rely on connecting to the
license daemons- it has a domain-based key (which should work at LCS).
Try running another application that uses a license manager- try
"add tecplot; tecplot"- does that work?
That's about all I can think of.
Alex
