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Re: Alarm clock message???? [message #5329] Wed, 08 November 1995 00:00
jacobsen is currently offline  jacobsen
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Registered: July 1992
Junior Member
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.
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Chris Jacobsen, Department of Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook
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Re: Alarm clock message???? [message #5339 is a reply to message #5329] Tue, 07 November 1995 00:00 Go to previous message
joseph.b.gurman is currently offline  joseph.b.gurman
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Registered: October 1995
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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

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