Hi,
I know that this has been discussed many times here. But it is always complicated and it is always a different story everytime.

I am running Ubuntu 7.04
The installation of Houdini was tricky (the install script problem, the root permissions etc.)

But it is installed now. The licence administrator is not running properly.
“Cannot connect to the icence server on localhost”

How will I fix that?

* I think I have to setup some environment variables?
* I think It has something to do with my network adapters.
(macbook pro / wireless on / ethernet not connected etc.)

What version of Houdini did you install?

Is sesinetd running? If you ran into problems when installing then the license server scripts may not have been properly installed. You can check if sesinetd is running by running ‘ps -C sesinetd’. If it's not running, you can try ‘sudo /etc/init.d/sesinetd start’.

Ubuntu 7.04
Houdini 8.2.13

The install actually worked very good. I had problems but as soon as I got the script running it was smooth and clean.

the result of “ps -C sesinetd” is:

PID TTY TIME CMD

thats all.

“sudo /etc/init.d/sesinetd start” it says.
command not found

I just had this yesterday:

sudo /opt/hfs8.2.13/houdini/sbin/sesinetd

is the correct path.

You get this with
which sesinetd

after setting up the houdini environment:

source houdini_setup_bash


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Was just writing an HOWTO and wondered if this would be usefull.

Georg

the sesinetd script isn't copied at startup to the /etc/rc.d dirs i think. There should be a directory /usr/lib/sesi where the startup resides (or the $HFS/sbin dir). Copy it to /etc/rc.d and check that it uses the right shell (houdini uses bash, ubuntu uses dash). Should be on the first line of the sesinetd script #! /bin/bash change it to #!/bin/sh.

rdg
I just had this yesterday:

sudo /opt/hfs8.2.13/houdini/sbin/sesinetd

is the correct path.

You get this with
which sesinetd

after setting up the houdini environment:

source houdini_setup_bash


– —

Was just writing an HOWTO and wondered if this would be usefull.

Georg

Yeah… that worked… it is running now. The licence server daemon was in that folder… not in the folders specified on other posts related to this issue, So everything is green now

What kind of environment things I should have to set.?
In which files? ./bashrc?

Do I have to add any lines.
Thanks.

sys:
MacBook PRO (intel) / Triple boot: OSX, Ubuntu 7.04, XP

http://www.preset.de/2007/0704/houdini_vs_feistyfawn/ [preset.de]

I finished the tutorial - it is meant to be an no-pain-starter-setup. Chip Collier guided me. sum][one added some thoughts, too.

There are many addition possible but I would call messing with /etc/rc.d an advanced topic that might alienate some apprentice users.

Georg

Thanks.
Thats a great help.