License on Alpha

[miker_alpha]

<span style='color:red'>
I think this is URGENT</span>

I cannot login to OpenVMS Alpha - I see the message
"license has terminated"
Could a privileged user please try the command

$ SHOW LICENSE

and check what it says in the right-most column
(under "termination date")

... Do it <span style='color:red'>BEFORE</span> the next reboot!

Oh and by-the-way: Congratulations on reaching 90 days uptime!


Mike R
mailto:/mike@rechtman.com

[sjaz]

Hi, mail this to zoli@polarhome with subject label URGENT ;p

[miker_alpha]

I emailed support@alpha.polarhome.com.
Hopefully that gets forwarded to Zoli>)

The same thing happens logging in to user GUEST on the VAX
(I guess the passwords had the same expiration date, or someone de-installed the relevant licence{s})

MikeR.

P.S. the "privileged user" in my O.P. will probably have to login on the system console. That means physical access to the system, which leaves it up to Z.

[miker_alpha]

Tried email, and this is what I got:

  ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
zoli@redhat.polarhome.com
    (expanded from: zoli )

  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
zoli@redhat.polarhome.com... Deferred: Connection refused by [192.168.10.5]
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

Anyone manage to contact Zoli?

MikeR

[sjaz]

Nope ... Give it some time ... he'll notice this post.

[miker_alpha]

Well, Zoli handled problem on Alpha;
<span style='color:blue'>Many thanks!!</span>

Licenses are now OK till May, 2005.

VAX is unreachable (09:10 GMT) so I suppose its being handled (probably down...?...)

Also have QOTD server back up on port 3017
(its actually quote-of-the-moment, not -of-the-day, and the standard port would be 17)

MikeR

[DenisF]

Sweet

[sjaz]

Quote: Never give an inch hehe

[zoli]

Sorry... but this "once per year task" is really easy to forget.

Thanks to Mike's script it is possible to track and send alarms when licences expire.

Sorry for caused inconvenience .

[miker_alpha]

@Zoli:
Please check thye 3 lines in the sript, esp. that the name of the license is spelled right (e.g. "-" or "_" etc.)

Sorry 'bout that

MikeR