Sun Managers,
I solved this problem on Friady afternoon (02/09/96). As
an attempt to cover all bases, I included the third Flexlm
license server in the client's /etc/hosts file and BINGO!!!
I received three replies regarding my post, which are
appended below. Thank you very much for your responses.
Phil Poole
Julie Dickinson
Ashish Parikh
All three included the solution to the problem.
Regards, darrell
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From: Phil Poole[SMTP:poole@ncifcrf.gov]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 1996 6:24 PM
To: Flores, Darrell R
Subject: Re: flexlm/Solaris problem
Darrell,
what is your LM_LICENSE_FILE set too ?
echo $LM_LICENSE_FILE or check for it in your .login or .cshrc
If that does not work or appears correct then, did you list
the individual license servers in the /etc/hosts file ?
I found that to aid my early problems with SUN licensed products.
Does that machine have permission to run the compiler ?
is your license network or node locked ?
Node locked licenses will only run on the machines they are
licensed for.
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 20:33:40 +0800
From: jules@kindra-78.eng.sun.com (Julie Dickinson)
Message-Id: <9602100433.AA08153@lilac.eng.sun.com>
To: drflores@drf.b23b.ingr.com
Subject: Re: flexlm/Solaris problem
Cc: licensing-support@sunpro.eng.sun.com
X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
Status: RO
Darrell,
The FLEXlm documentation reports that this error indicates that the
gethostbyname call failed for the SERVER named in the license file.
I know that FLEXlm, in and of itself, doesn't use NIS/NIS+, so NIS's
absence is not affecting your system.
When I hear about these types of FLEXlm problems, it usually means that
there's nothing wrong with the FLEXlm and license installation or
configuration. Instead, some overall network file, not specifically
tied to FLEXlm at all, is usually slightly misconfigured.
Make sure you're doing your telnet and ping tests both as an average
user as well as root. Can you rlogin to the license server from the
client machine?
If you're not familiar with the gethostbyname call (there is a man page
on it), find a TCP/IP guru near you and ask them what system files are
related to it.
My apologies for not being able to point directly to the source of your problem and sta
te the solution, but I focus on FLEXlm - I am not a TCP/IP guru!
julie dickinson
SunSoft Developer Products
Support Services
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From: Ashish Parikh[SMTP:ashish@Savantage.Com]
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 1996 3:34 PM
To: Flores, Darrell R
Subject: Re: flexlm/Solaris problem
You may need to add the server name to your yp database? See the man page on
gethostbyname to see how the function works.
Ashish
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Original POST:
Darrell Flores writes:
| From drflores Thu Feb 8 16:20:32 1996
| From: drflores (Darrell Flores)
| Message-Id: <199602082220.AA13882@drf.edaal.ingr.com>
| Subject: flexlm/Solaris problem
| To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu
| Date: Thu, 8 Feb 96 16:20:32 CST
| Cc: drflores@drf.b23b.ingr.com (Darrell Flores)
| Reply-To: drflores@ingr.com
| X-Mailer: ELM [version 07.05.00.00 (2.3 PL11)]
|
| Sun Managers,
|
| I have a user running Solaris 2.3 on a Sparc2:
|
| Hostname: landover
| Release: 5.3
| Kernel architecture: sun4m
| Application architecture: sparc
| Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
| Domain:
| Kernel version: SunOS 5.3 Generic September 1993
|
|
| Attemts to get a license during C compiles fail.
| The Sparc2 (landover) can ping and telnet to both
| Sun Sparc2 License servers.
|
| The compile error is as follows:
|
| landover > cc test.c
|
| License Error : Cannot find the license server (jjsun)
| in the network database for product(SPARCompiler C)
| cc: acomp failed for test.c
|
| The Sparc2 (landover) is NOT running NIS!
| Flexlm on the license servers is v2.61.
|
| What network database do I need to update???
|
| Any suggestions will be appreciated.
|
| Regards, darrell
|
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Darrell Flores
System & Network Administration
Intergraph Corporation Phone # : (205) 730-8516
Electronics Division Fax # : (205) 730-8344
Huntsville, AL 35894-0001 E-Mail : drflores@ingr.com
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