Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Barry Wiseman (Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:37:14 -0400):

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 that used to be valid is no longer valid for whatever reason.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

Any grace period would have been for the same license, so you would have
had a 7-day grace period on a 64-user license, not a single-user demo.
Is it possible someone replaced the license with a valid single-user
demo license?

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

There is some additional info written to that file beyond just the
license, and filePro can use that to help with the "fall to grace".

> 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?

Did you, perchance, get a debug or test version of a filePro binary
to help track down a previous problem?

In any case, you can chmod 0 the file, and filePro won't log to it
any more.

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