Starting the License Manager Manually

You can start or stop the license manager by using the toolworks_init script. If the license manager software is installed in /usr/local/toolworks, the following commands start the license manager. Before entering these commands, use the su shell command to become the root user.

cd /usr/local/toolworks/flexlm-6.1
./bin/toolworks_init start 

Note:   Before running this program, make sure that you have write permission to this directory.

Although the start-up script should be run as super-user (root), the license manager is started using the FLEXlm user ID.

If the license manager starts successfully, the UNIX ps command shows that lmgrd, the primary license manager daemon, is running. Depending on how many shared licenses are currently in use, the ps command may show one or more instances of the toolworks license daemon.