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Re: HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict [message #27950 is a reply to message #27888]

Tue, 13 November 2001 08:37

Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531
Registered: November 2000

Senior Member

I don't know if its relevant in this case, but I saw the same behavior
from a non-dongle license. If I plug in a dongle, IDL will not start up
with the dongleless license. Once the dongle is pulled out, it starts
just fine.

Pavel

Rick Towler wrote:
>
>> Did you set correctly the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable.
>> It must be something like
>> export LM_LICENSE_FILE=1700@YOURMACHINE
>
> Yes. Everything works fine until you install the HASP driver. Then IDL
> ignores the environment variable alltogether and only looks locally for a
> license file. If I unistall the HASP driver then IDL works as expected
> (finding the license file at port@host).
>
> Although my knowledge of this is quite limited, I suspect that this problem
> is a limitation in IDL. With older versions of IDL I seem to remember that
> you couldn't just set the LM_LICENSE_FILE variable to port@host to access
> the license file from the licensing server and instead you had to install a
> copy of your license file on every client. It seems that when started, IDL
> looks for the HASP driver and if it is found, it behaves like the older
> versions of IDL. At least that is the working theory.
>
> I guess I just have to put up with it until 5.6 when, at least according to
> rumor, HASP licensing will be dropped altogether.
>
> -Rick

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		HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict By: Rick Towler on Fri, 09 November 2001 12:07
		Re: HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 13 November 2001 08:37
		Re: HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict - Follow up By: Rick Towler on Wed, 14 November 2001 16:02
		Re: HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict - Follow up By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 15 November 2001 12:37

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