Ya gotta love this:
I have inherited a QNX 4.25, Photon 1.13, Watcomm C 10.6 project which is
about 80% complete. Other Software Engineers are either new or deep into
their applications to help. I worked on UNIX about 10 years ago. They tell
me I am the new QNX administrator.
More fun:
We are running QNX on a proprietory platform which does not normally have a
CD ROM, Floppy, or network connection. For development, we are connected to
a Windows network using Samba software. About 7 systems have been set up
previous to my arival and I suspect they were loaded at different times by
different people with little concern for consistency.
We will be adding riggor to the administration of these platforms but I do
have a problem which is perplexing.
Problem:
On some systems, I intermittently encounter a no license message after
running and terminating our application. This applies to the Watcom C and
the Photon Application Builder. I am forced to shutdown to continue
development. I would blame the application code but on some systems no
problems occur.
I have compared the /etc/config/sysinit and /etc/hosts files and found no
actual differences. As I was told, there is no QNX networking for remote
licensing. The affected systems still fail when disconnected from the
network. I have tried to refresh licences from disk with the license
command but that did not help.
The failing systems all appear not to be using any licenses. A “licinfo -a”
command always shows zero licenses in use on the failing systems before and
after the problem. The same command shows the expected licenses used on the
non failing systems.
As a note, the QNX license seems to never be used on either types of
systems.
On a failing system the following licenses were installed.
New licenses: phab phrt phrt wcc
Old licenses: qnx qnx tcprt tcprt
TIA
Jan
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Jan Stefan
Software Engineer
jstefan@minnetronix.com
www.minnetronix.com
Minnetronix Inc.
1635 Energy Park Drive
St. Paul, MN 55108
phone: (651) 917-4060 ext. 256