Automatic Startup

The following excerpt for starting the license server manager is adapted from Chapter 6 of the End User Manual located at opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/htmlman/EndUser.

Edit the boot script, /etc/rc.local, including commands similar to the following. See the notes at the end for details.

/bin/su daniel -c 'echo starting lmgrd ' >> \ 
/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/boot.log

/bin/su daniel -c ' \ 
/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/lmgrd -c \ 
/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/license.dat' >> \ 
/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/boot.log

/bin/su daniel -c 'echo sleep 5' >> \ 
/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/boot.log

/bin/sleep 5

/bin/su daniel -c 'echo lmdiag >> \ 
/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/boot.log'

/bin/su daniel -c 
'/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/lmutil lmdiag' >> \ 
/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/boot.log

/bin/su daniel -c 'echo exiting ' >> \ 
/opt/Autodesk/networklicensemanager/boot.log

Note:

• All paths are specified in full, because no paths are assumed at boot time.
• Because no paths are assumed, the vendor daemon must be in the same directory as lmgrd, or the VENDOR lines in the license file must be edited to include the full path to the vendor daemon.
• The su command is used to run lmgrd as a non-root user, "daniel." lmgrd does not require root permissions, so to avoid security risks, you should not run it as "root."
• Daniel has a csh login, so all commands executed as "daniel" must be in csh syntax. All commands not executed as "daniel" must be in /bin/sh syntax, because that is what the boot scripts use.
• lmdiag is used as a diagnostic tool to verify that the server is running and serving licenses.
• This does not start the daemon until you reboot your license server machine.