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Re: Alarm clock message????
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description: In article <47mioh$17m@news.csus.edu>, Eric Williams <williams> wrote: > HELP!! PLEASE!! > > I have run across a very odd error message and I cannot get IDL to run now. > I am running IDL 3.6.1a on a Solaris OS. Up until about an hour ago all was > running fine. I had two IDL batch files running in the background (not > uncommon for this machine) and they both died. Now I cannot run IDL > interactively or in batch mode. When I try to start a session I get: > > IDL. Version 3.6.1a (sunos sparc). > Copyright 1989-1994, Research Systems, Inc. > All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. > Alarm clock > > All of this is normal except for the Alarm clock line and then I get booted > back out to my shell prompt. We have had this site license for more than a > year and have never seen this before. I know of no time limit on the license. > > Has anyone else ever seen this or have an idea what the problem might be? > We are desperate right now!! We have very important science not getting done! Is your FLEXlm license manager running? Joe Gurman -- J.B. Gurman / Solar Physics Branch/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / joseph.b.gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov | Federal employees are still prohibited from holding opinions while at | | work. Therefore, any opinions expressed herein are somebody else's. |
creator: joseph.b.gurman
date: 1995-11-07T08:00:00-00:00

Re: Alarm clock message????
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description: It means the system can't find the license.dat file. CHeck your PATH statements etc. license.dat is an ascii file with your computer's name and a matching bit of gibberish that the license manager uses to verify your installation. -- Chris Jacobsen, Department of Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook E-mail: jacobsen@xray1.physics.sunysb.edu Home page: http://xray1.physics.sunysb.edu/~jacobsen/
creator: jacobsen
date: 1995-11-08T08:00:00-00:00