On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 03:28:05PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I'm trying to start the licence manager for matlab and it comes up with > > su: user adm does not exist > su: user adm does not exist > su: user adm does not exist > > Is "adm" some kind of standard user on unix systems that for some reason > doesn't exist in debian?
I think matlab uses flexlm. I wrote the following script to start flexlm, it should probably support start/stop/restart...: #!/bin/sh # run flexlm lmgrd for software which requires it FLEXHOME=/tools/flexlm/lmgrd/current/i486 LICENSES=/tools/flexlm/licenses LOGDIR=/var/log # virsim su -c "$FLEXHOME/lmgrd -c $LICENSES/virsim.dat >> $LICENSES/log/virsim.log" install It is in /etc/init.d. I then ran update-rc.d to set the links in the rc.d directories. User install is a locally created user that owns the tools directories. I would prefer the log files to go to /var/log, but didn't want to deal with permission problems when I was setting this up. Just fix the paths to your flexlm binaries, put the license in the location referenced by "-c" and change "virsim" to "matlab". If you every want to kill the daemon, make sure you kill lmgrd and the vendor daemon (mentioned in the license file). -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]