How to automatically start lmgrd and ddtsd on reboot

Resolving The Problem

There are two daemons associated with DDTS's processing and if you reboot your UNIX® system you should make provisions to restart them automatically.

The deamons are "lmgrd" which is the FlexLM license manager daemon and "ddtsd" which is DDTS's main process-dispatching daemon.

To start these files automatically after a UNIX reboot, you can exploit facilities of your UNIX system to run startup files at reboot time. These files vary from UNIX architecture to architecture; consult your system's documentation for details (on Solaris, do a 'man init.d').

For example, on Solaris you could create a file 'DDTS' in directory
/etc/init.d/ consisting of:

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/DDTS - Start up the ClearDDTS license and ddtsd daemons

# First, get the DDTS home directory (this bit copied from ddtsclean)...
DDTSHOME=`/bin/echo 'echo ~ddts' | /bin/csh -sf`
if test $? != 0; then
echo "ERROR: Can't start DDTS daemons; cannot locate home directory..."
exit 1
fi

# Start the license manager...
if [ -f $DDTSHOME/bin/lmgrd ]; then
echo "Starting FlexLM daemon for DDTS..."
su ddts -c "$DDTSHOME/bin/lmgrd -c $DDTSHOME/license.dat -l $DDTSHOME/licens
e.log"
fi

# Start the DDTS daemon...
if [ -f $DDTSHOME/bin/ddtsd ]; then
echo "Starting the DDTS ddtsd daemon..."
$DDTSHOME/bin/ddtsd 2>&1
fi

Then, create a symbolic link to this file in /etc/rc3.d:

cd /etc/rc3.d
ln -s /etc/init.d/DDTS S80DDTS

Then, upon reboot the system will run this script, which will make these
daemons available before any users can log on.


CAVEAT: According to GlobeTrotter Software (vendors of FlexLM), there
are some situations where the above procedure may not work. The following
text is exerpted from the FlexLM FAQ; if you have further questions or
concerns about this text or about FlexLM in general, please contact
Globetrotter Software:

1. Use 'nohup su username -c `umask 022; lmgrd -c ...''.
   Note: It is not recommended to run lmgrd as root; the su username is used to run
   lmgrd as a non-privileged user.
2. Add 'sleep 2' after the lmgrd command.
   
   Note: On RS-6000 systems, you have to use /etc/inittab to start the license
   server. The reason is that AIX has not started TCP
   networking when /etc/rc is run, and lmgrd requires TCP networking.
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