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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

10013.0. "licenses ENABLED but not ACTIVE ??" by PANTER::AUBERT () Mon Jun 02 1997 10:54

    Hello,
    
    A customer of mine has a problem with licenses who are NOT ACTIVE but
    only ENABLED after the boot.
    
    A "lmf reset" clears this problem after the boot; but why licenses do
    not being active automaticaly ?
    
    The customer told me that it is the case for all licenses (DECnet,
    OSF-USR, ...) excepted for OSF-BASE.
    
    The configuration is the following:    	
    	AlphaServer 1000A 4/266
        Digital UNIX 3.2D-2
    
    Thanks in advance for any suggestion concerning this problem.
    
    Thierry Aubert/MCS UNIX

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
10013.1	/sbin/rc3.d/S08startlmf problems may be?	NNTPD::"[email protected]"	Sri	`Tue Jun 03 1997 12:09`	12
	Hi, If you look at the script /sbin/rc3.d/S08startlmf, you will notice that, the script is looking for 9th field in who -r output to be "S" (ie., its booting UP from single user mode..) to start the licenses by performing "lmf reset". You might want to check yourself what "who -r" saying and if it says for any reason different., you probably can modify that script a bit to reset it during typical run level change --Sri [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
10013.2		finder.uvo.dec.com::COFFEYJ	La Feline Flooz - a unix cat	`Tue Jun 03 1997 12:44`	11
	Sounds like it's hit the same problem as the patches installations did - when booting up to single user who -r returns 0 not S - it only returns S when you go down to single user, when booting up the root file system is read-only so presumably that's why it doesn't get updated until everything is up and running at 3. As we see more problems with this I'm starting to suspect there must be certain circumstances which cause this otherwise surely we would have seen a lot of these problems before!