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Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux [message #44870 is a reply to message #44849]

Tue, 26 July 2005 11:18

Mathieu Malaterre
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Registered: July 2005

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Vincent Noel wrote:
> Hey Mathieu,
>
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
>> The license indeed contains a 'DAEMON' line, but again I need to modify
>> the hardcoded path to point to the proper path. Could someone from rsync
>> confirm this is ok (one can change the default /usr/local to /opt with
>> no consequence).
>
> If you ever modify the content of the license file, it will invalidate
> it, and the license manager won't be happy. You should never change the
> content of a license file, when you need a new one you should ask a new
> one from RSI (is that who you meant by 'rsync' ?)

Oops the web site is rsinc, but my subconscient made me write rsync the
well known transfer protocol :)

> For your particular case, I would think the correct paths are set up in
> the license files during the installation process. I would guess that
> something went wrong during your installation. It might be a lot easier
> to just re-install the thing... (maybe even using the "suggested" paths
> to simplify the whole thing ;))
> IIRC, the installation is a little confusing - you have to untar the
> IDL archive directly in the final installation directory, and launch
> ./install from it, which is very unusual.

hum I see. I'll try again later.

>> Ps: Vincent did you see this is not recommended to start the daemon as
>> root (it's in the output).
>
> Yeah, I know, you're supposed to launch it at boot time like a service,
> but I couldn't be bothered to set it up correctly :-)

Yeah they are writting files in /etc/rc.d which is redhat only ...

Thanks for your help ,
Mathieu

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		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Mathieu Malaterre on Wed, 27 July 2005 10:36
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Mathieu Malaterre on Tue, 26 July 2005 11:18
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Vincent Noel on Tue, 26 July 2005 10:42
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Mathieu Malaterre on Tue, 26 July 2005 10:31
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Vincent Noel on Tue, 26 July 2005 10:03
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 26 July 2005 02:33
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Antonio Santiago on Mon, 25 July 2005 22:43
		Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 28 July 2005 01:52

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