Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

[Barry Wiseman]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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 that used to be valid is no longer valid for whatever reason.

In my case there was no grace period, at least none perceivable by me or by the 
users.  (Maybe licinfo would have reported something about it, but why would I think 
to run that?)  One day, fully functional 64-user license with no indication that any 
sort of "grace period" was in effect.  Next day, demo license, single-user only.

How does filePro "see" that a license "used to be valid"?  Is that the function of 
the licfp.bkp file?

Also, while I have your ear,  what's up with the /tmp/chkuser.log file, which seems 
to grow by about 1 MB per day?

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