| Re: Installing IDL 6.1 on debian linux 3 [message #45087 is a reply to message #45084] |
Mon, 01 August 2005 09:46  |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> ...So I installed everything in the default directory to avoid any
> exotic problem.
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> Could someone tell me what to set in VENDOR ? Or if I need to define
> some kind of magic environment variable to get the license manager just
> to start.
I don't think you should be modifying anything in the VENDOR entries of your license file.
Do you know how to start the license manager daemon manually? And shut it down?
Once you've figured that out, you can start the daemon by modifying, or getting your sysadmin to
modify, you "local start up" script. I dunno where it is or what it is called in debian, but on RH
you can either:
a) modify the script /etc/rc.d/rc.local to perform the start up (not as root though, remember), or
b) stick the lmgrd startup commands in their own script (on my system it's called lmgrd.rc) in the
directory /etc/rc.d/init.d
I used to do (a), back when I did my own installs, but now I do (b) since my sysadmins do the
install and the lmgrd startup is not just for IDL licenses.
All the details (for supported platforms at least) are in the IDL documentation that comes with the
CD - that's where I got the info (and I'm a total non-sysadmin-y type :o)
BTW, the only time I ever needed root access to do any of this was to edit my rc.local script. And,
before I handed all this stuff over to the sysadmins, I think they put me on the sudo list so I
could edit that file as regular old me (but I could be wrong). I've installed IDL on a whole bunch
of systems (IBM RS6K's, Sun SPARCstations, and linux boxes all with various flavours of Red Hat
[v6.1-7.something, and now Enterprise v3 and v4]) but I always made sure the system was one
supported by RSI. I never had a problem. Also, what do the RSI tech support folks say about your
problems? Even though Debian may not be on the official support list (is it? I don;t know) I'm sure
they would have some idea.
paulv
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