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Re: flex license manager tempfile predictable name...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roelof JT Jonkman)
Wed Feb 23 15:05:22 2000
Message-Id: <200002230240.UAA04823@stephens.ittc.ukans.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:40:57 -0600
Reply-To: Roelof JT Jonkman <rjonkman@ITTC.UKANS.EDU>
From: Roelof JT Jonkman <rjonkman@ITTC.UKANS.EDU>
X-To: sp00n <sp00n@APOLLO.GTI.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:44:51 EST."
<Pine.GSO.4.10.10002212252390.4077-100000@apollo.gti.net>
sp00n,
Flex does not need to run as root:
Somewhere on their webpage they have some scripts, I crafted some myself, and
didn't see a need to run a license manager as root.
In the following script note the use of 'su daemon -c' and relocating the
log file to somewhere more sensible. (-l blah)
roel
Here is the script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# quircky script to start license gumbo
case "$1" in
'start')
if [ -x /tools/licenses/bin/lmgrd ] ; then
su daemon -c "umask 022; /tools/licenses/bin/lmgrd -c /tools/licenses/keys/license.dat -l /tools/licenses/logs/flexlm.log" &
echo "Starting FLEXlm license service."
fi
;;
'stop')
if [ -x /tools/licenses/bin/lmutil ] ; then
echo "y" | /tools/licenses/bin/lmutil lmdown -c /tools/licenses/keys/license.dat -l /tools/licenses/logs/flexlm.log &
echo "Stopped FLEXlm license service."
fi
;;
'restart')
if [ -x /tools/licenses/bin/lmutil ] ; then
echo "y" | /tools/licenses/bin/lmutil lmreread -c /tools/licenses/keys/license.dat -l /tools/licenses/logs/flexlm.log &
echo "Restarted FLEXlm license service."
fi
;;
'status')
if [ -x /tools/licenses/bin/lmutil ] ; then
/tools/licenses/bin/lmutil lmstat -c /tools/licenses/keys/license.dat
echo "Status displayed."
fi
;;
'hostid')
if [ -x /tools/licenses/bin/lmutil ] ; then
/tools/licenses/bin/lmutil hostid -c /tools/licenses/keys/license.dat
echo "Hostid returned."
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/flexlm { start | stop | status | hostid }"
;;
esac
