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- From: jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
- Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.094714.20153@cscdec.cs.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 09:47:14 GMT
- References: <1992Jul8.130744.28132@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Jul16.011432.21520@cscdec.cs.com> <1992Jul16.163132.1672@charon.amdahl.com>
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- In article <1992Jul16.163132.1672@charon.amdahl.com> perry@pls.amdahl.com (Perry The Cynic) writes:
- >
- >Reality check. Sun's license server (at least the Beta 2 version) checks out
- >a license for a *minimum* of 15 minutes. That means that after *you* run cc,
- >nobody else can use that license until 15 minutes after you stopped using it.
- >That limit is enforced by the software (you can increase it but not decrease
- >it), and I'm told that it is *official policy* of Sun. In other words, they
- >*want* it to be that way.
- >
- I'll have to admit that I probably missed an important point in the original
- posting. But at most development sites I thnk the ratio of license's to
- programming stations could be around 1:4.
-
- However, you point about the license linger time is not accurate.
- Version 2.22 of the license manager has a feature called "license lingering"
- This feature allows you to specify how long a license will linger beyond
- the program exit. Also the granularity is about 1 minute, with worst case
- about 2 minutes.
-
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- Jack Hudler - Computer Support Corporation - Dallas,Texas - jack@cs.com
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