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Date:      Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:00:08 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem with the new linux module
Message-ID:  <20011202180007.A2618@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011130102101.A5245@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>
References:  <20011130102101.A5245@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:21:01AM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> The commits made to the Linux kernel module beginning Nov 5, 2001
> 19:08:22 GMT have broken the Linux FLEX license manager.  The output of
> 'lmutil lmhostid' should produce output as follows:
> 
> lmutil - Copyright (C) 1989-2000 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
> The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is "000102c921d5"
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> However, with the new Linux module, the following is produced:
> 
> lmutil - Copyright (C) 1989-2000 Globetrotter Software, Inc.
> The FLEXlm host ID of this machine is ""
>                                      ^^^^
> Note the null host ID.  This prevents any product that uses FLEXlm from
> verifying its' license and thus keeps it from running.

You will have to provide more detailed information if you want this
to be resolved. It would be good to know which syscall(s) is behaving
differently.

Also, make sure your console log doesn't have messages related to
unsupported sysctls.

HTH,

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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