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Re: Problems with registering executor?
>>>>> "Toby" == Toby Everett <tua@tua.st.hmc.edu> writes:
Toby> I've been trying to register Executor/Linux with the Serial
Toby> Number and Aurthorization key ARDI sent me and I'm having no
Toby> luck. It appears to accept the strings and then exit. When
Toby> I go to restart it, I get a Signal 23 (SIGIO, SIGURG, or
Toby> SIGPOLL according to my signal.h). Anyone else getting
Toby> this?
The exiting after registering is normal, but the crashing is not. Are
you running executor under gdb? Is more than one Executor active on
your network or machine at any given time?
Here's what's happening:
You can now purchase site licenses for Executor for a fixed number of
simultaneous users on your network. People who buy a copy for
personal use are really purchasing a site license for one user. When
you run Executor, it checks the local network for other Executors to
make sure you aren't using more copies simultaneously than your
license allows. We have seen the SIGIO from the broadcast packet kill
Executor under gdb (looks like a gdb bug), but not elsewhere.
You can turn off the site license check with:
executor -checknet 0
Of course, you're not supposed to use this flag to maliciously
circumvent your site license restrictions, but we allow users this
option in case the net check causes problems.
We apologize for not mentioning this in the 1.99k documentation; that
was an error.
-Mat
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