Re: searching for available license

[Karl Hoppel <karl.hoppel(at)nrl.navy.mil>]

> Thanks Craig,

That worked.  I can just specify a list of license files separated by
colons for the "LM_LICENSE_FILE" variable and it will search
sequentially for an available license.

Karl





> Karl Hoppel <karl.hoppel@nrl.navy.mil> writes:
>
> > Does anyone have a script for searching for an available floating
> > license?
> > We have floating licenses distrubuted over many systems (one license for
> > each
> > person).  Once in a while,  someone will need to use a second license.
> > My current method of finding one is to simply change the
> > "LM_LICENSE_FILE"
> > environment variable to an alternate system/license and start IDL.  I
> > can repeat this
> > procedure until I find a free license.  There must be a quicker way, but
> > I don't know of
> > any way to poll a license server to see if a license is available.
>
> I always thought you could list more than one license file, and IDL
> would check each one in succession.  Separate with each file with a
> colon.  Worth a try?
>
> Craig
>
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