Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Brian K. White (Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:48:48 -0400):
[...]
> filepro, even with the simple licence file in 5.0.15 not even the licence
> manager daemon, is functionaly broken for me. I can't use it. I actually can
> not use it. I can't live with the potential for even 12 or even 6 hours of a
> box being down due to a broken filepro licence while we wait for filepro's
> business hours to roll around. Early mornings happen to be my customers
> highest critical time and losing half the morning until 8 or 9 am astern or
> central comes around is not tolerable.

But filePro will fall back to a 7 day grace period if it sees that a license
that used to be valid is no longer valid for whatever reason.

> Even if there was a way for me to self-generate a temporary working license
> or if the license went into a grace period mode automatically to get through
> situations like that,

As I said, it does fall back to a 7 day grace period in such situations.

> I still can't allow myself to depend on something that
> will occasionally stop working and requires someone else to fix.

Might I ask what scenarios you envision that "will occasionally stop
working"?  Short of replacing a dead NIC, do you envision some other
issues?

> Two words:
> Menu Master. Heck, SCO just announced that they might fold up shop too.

If that's what you're concerned about, you can always talk to fPTech
about putting into escrow an unlimited-user, all-features-enabled,
not-tied-to-any-hardware license.

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