Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

[Barry Wiseman]

Fairlight wrote:
> You'll never BELIEVE what Barry Wiseman said here...:
>> I do see that the yum daemon installed a new kernel (CentOS 4.5,
>> 2.6.9-55.0.2 -> 2.6.9-55.0.6) on Sep 4.  The post-crash boot would be the
>> first instance of the box running that new kernel.  Might fP's licensing
>> scheme have stumbled over that?
> 
> My rule of thumb: *nix should -not- be auto-updated by an auto-scheduler.
> You just found out precisely why, and my experiences with SuSE's SP1 boot
> loader menu writing glitches are also an example (along with a few other
> oddities I've seen people run up against over the years).

Smart advice, clearly.

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