Hi there,
i was going through a couple of threads about licensing in Linux, and checked quiet some stuff.
It's a licensing problem i have.

/usr/houdini6> source houdini_setup
The Houdini 6.0.249 environment has been initialized.
/usr/houdini6> houdini
/usr/houdini6> sesictrl -i
Cannot connect to server dhcppc1 (0.0.0.0)- verify that sesinetd is running.
/usr/houdini6> hserver -l
No server found at localhost:1714

This is what i get, when i run the license process without hkey.

Can anybody interpret that? Why is the IP-number set to 0.0.0.0 ? Though i can communictae with the internet?
Thanks for your help.

Edited: I think it must somehow have something todo with my network settings, though i am not sure, and don't know where to look at. By the way, i'm trying to get an apprentice license, if that is important.

Hmmm…
First off, verify whether or not sesinetd is running - type in:

ps -e | grep sesi

You should see several sesinetd proceses. If not, then, as root:

cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
./sesinetd start

Now the license server should be running. You should be able to run hkey(after sourcing the houdini_setup file), and your sesictrl commands should work(although they will show you that there's no licenses available - and you shouldn't expect sesictrl to be in your path - it's in /usr/lib/sesi. hkey is recommended!).
Now, you're on your own with the apprentice licensing - I'm not sure about that - but at least this will get your license daemon running. SESI should be able to help you with the rest.

Cheers,

J.C.

ok thanks first.

ok, sesinetd is not running.

i have no folder init.d in rc.d, but i can go to
cd /etc/init.d

But then again ./sesinetd start is not working either. If it helps, i am running SuSE Linux 8.2.
nVidia Geforce 2MX, drivers are installed. 3D activated.

Need more help.

Here the hkey diagnostic information: This might help you:

Diagnostic Output:
==================
If you are having licensing problems, please save this information and email it
to support@sidefx.com.

License Administrator output:
=============================
Generated on: Tue Apr 8 17:21:50 2003
Local host name: dhcppc1
Local server code: 4dba8400
Local ip address: 97.115.32.39
License server name: dhcppc1
License server server code: 4dba8400
Server ip address: (could not look up server)
License server is running: No
License Administrator version: 6.0.249
Http proxy host: (none)
Can retrieve http://license.sidefx.com/index.php: [license.sidefx.com] Yes

Installed licenses:
LicID Platform Product Ver Avail Expiry
—– ——– ——- — —– ——

sesictrl -i output:
===================
Cannot connect to server dhcppc1 (232.227.152.64)- verify that sesinetd is running.



hserver -l output:
==================


licenses file:
==============
* Could not open the licenses file. *



Thank you

Oh, yikes - I'm not a SUSE guy so I'll back out …but hopefully someone else here is. I suspect the problem is related to SUSE having a different setup than Redhat(your comment on the /etc/initd directory verifies that). The licensing tools likely aren't being installed properly. That doesn't mean it can't work, necessarily, it just means you'll need to hack around that. I think.

Any SUSE users out there?

Cheers,

J.C.

Yeah, i already asumed that too.
would be great to know where to put which files manualy to make it work.
Or if somebody has a alternate install routine just for SuSE?

Anyhow thanks for the try.
cheers

I have Houdini 6 and Slackware 9.0 running happily with each other.

I suspect that Suse's /etc tree is like Slackware's. The last post of this thread should be of some help.

http://odforce.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=452&s=1995086fb520bd8683230c8cd03116ff [odforce.net]

jim.

Okay, thanks so far, i feel i'm getting there.
Done that, what this guy on oddforce forum said, but still cannot connect to license server.
At least i can start now the sesinetd process.

When i do JColdricks
./sesinetd start

i can see the sesinet processes (3 off it)

but hkey is still not connecting to license server.

Cheers

Does ping localhost work? What does netstat -rn say?

ping of localhost works fine.
netstat resolves this

Kernel IP Routentabelle
Ziel Router Genmask Flags MSS Fenster irtt Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

still clueless.
cheers

It seems a bit suspicious that there is no 127.0.0.0 route and why is your ip address 192.168.0.1 when hkey reports 97.115.32.39 ?

I suspect the problem is that your ip and/or your hostname is changing. Are you using dial up for your internet connection?

Try these links as well:
http://www.sidefx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=326 [sidefx.com]
http://www.sidefx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34 [sidefx.com]

I'm behind a router.
No dial up. It might happen that the connection has to be redialed after 24 hours, but the router is doing that automaticaly.

I have no problems running houdini under win2k so i don't think it has something todo with my network.

I'll try to take a look at those other links now.

Cheers

OK.
I solved the problem now.
For everybody encountering the same trouble with SuSE Linux distro.

First before installing houdini, goto rc.d and create a directory. login as root though

cd /etc/rc.d
mkdir init.d


Then check your network settings. What was wrong in my case, was that i had a hook set at change hostname with dhcp. Don't let the dhcp change your hostname. (you find this in yast2 under networkservices>hostnames)

Then goto the directory where you downloaded the houdini package uncompress it and do the install routine, as described in the readme file.

Now open a csh (i always used tcsh) goto the houdini directory where you installed it too (by default /usr/hfs6) type


source houdini_setup


And then start houdini

houdini

I hope this helps some of you out there, that had the same trouble.
It's a bit brief, but if you follow this thread you get other options, what you can do.

Thanks everyone, who tried to help me. Cheers