Re: sdt License Server has Stopped
Graeme Baer
given the assignment's due at 1:45 PM tomorrow...
I restarted the license server under the se2006 account.
I don't know what's going to happen when I log out, but it's working for
now...
CSCF - I'd appreciate it if someone'd nuke the se2006 process and restart
it as root so that everything's "proper"...
--
Graeme Baer
3B Software Engineering
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Andrew Miklas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There seems to be a problem running sdt (an SDL modelling package) on the
> undergrad environment. We're all getting errors like:
>
> "Cannot connect to the license server. The server (lmgrd) has not been
> started yet, or the wrong port@host or license file is being used, or the
> port or hostname in the license file has been changed.
>
> Feature: Telelogic
> Server Name: student.cs
> License Path:
> /software/sdt-4.5/distribution/license.dat:/software/sdt-4.5/distribution/license.dat"
>
>
> Is there any chance that the fix for this could be fast-tracked?
> All of us in CS445/SE463 have a large project due tomorrow that depends on
> this package.
>
>
> -- Andrew
>
Christopher Ryan Porter
of the DST License Server. Looks like I was responsible for that. When my
group went to school to work on our SDT and found out we couldn't get a
license (Although we had one earlier), I started to play around in the STD
file structure to try and find out how the licensing system worked. I was
amazed to realize there are only 15 licenses for everyone using STD.
Anyway, to make a long story short, I found a bunch of commands that I
probably shouldn't have had access to run, and started experimenting. I
managed to stop the license server, but the start command wouldn't work
for me. My apologies for letting my curiosity get the best of me. I'm not
sure what I was trying to accomplish. I really didn't think it would let
me stop the server.
Thanks Graeme for getting it back up so soon. I'm in your debt. I'm sure
I would have had (and may still have) hoards of angry mobs chasing me
otherwise... I'm really sorry to anyone who was affected by the 30 minutes
of server downtime.
Christopher Porter
Mikhail Lopyrev
Richard Janzen
sure he knows exactly what has transpired from his actions, and he was even
brave enough to admit to it.
If you are angry at him, then be angry, but there is no reason to publicly
attack him through the newsgroup.
Richard
"Mikhail Lopyrev" <mlop...@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.58.04...@cpu12.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca...
Ray Butterworth
"Richard Janzen" <raja...@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>I feel as if your response to Chris' post was completely unwarrented. I'm
>sure he knows exactly what has transpired from his actions, and he was even
>brave enough to admit to it.
>
>If you are angry at him, then be angry, but there is no reason to publicly
>attack him through the newsgroup.
I've no information about this situation other than what's been
reported in uw.mfcf.gripe, but it seems that what someone did was:
- explore some software
- experiment with it
- discover a major security problem
- refrain from abusing it for personal gain or malicious purposes
- report the problem
Back when I was a student, such independent research was
encouraged, and significant problem reports were rewarded
(e.g. free beer at the Grad Club).
Prabhakar Ragde
> Back when I was a student, such independent research was
> encouraged, and significant problem reports were rewarded
> (e.g. free beer at the Grad Club).
Ray's opinions are his own and do not represent the opinion of the
organization for which he works. (Neither do mine, of course.) --PR
(PS Chris's apology was genuine and timely, and I know he was trying
to help. But the correct thing to do on discovering a security breach
is to back out very carefully and notify those in charge.)
--
Prabhakar Ragde plr...@uwaterloo.ca
Professor, School of Computer Science DC 1314, (519)888-4567,x4660
Faculty of Mathematics Waterloo, Ontario CANADA N2L 3G1
University of Waterloo http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde