Starting the License Manager Manually


	Starting the License Manager Manually

The recommended method of starting or stopping the license manager is to use the toolworks_init start-up script. This script starts the license manager with the correct arguments and using the correct FLEXlm user ID. If the license manager software is installed in /usr/local/toolworks, the following commands start the license manager. Before using these commands, you will need to use the su shell command to become the root user.

cd /usr/local/toolworks/flexlm-6.1
./bin/toolworks_init start

Note: Make sure that you still have write permission to this directory before running this program.

Although the start-up script should be run as super-user (root), the license manager is started using the FLEXlm user ID.

If the license manager starts successfully, the UNIX ps command shows that the primary license manager daemon, lmgrd, is running. Depending on how many shared licenses are currently in use, the ps command may show one or more instances of the vendor-specific license daemon toolworks.