7.36 I can't get FLEXlm based licensing to work.

For some reason, Flex licensing requires /dev/lan0 to have read and write 
permissions for everybody. This is somewhat insecure, but is fixed in FLEXlm 
versions after 2.4. You should really upgrade your software, but if you can't, 
pls see their Web Site (see below) or here is one workaround: 

   1. Create a new group call "lan0".
   2. chgrp/chmod /dev/lan0 to look like this:
      crw-rw----   1 root     lan0      52 0x202000 May 20  1993 /dev/lan0
   3. chgrp/chmod g+s on any binaries that need to access /dev/lan0.
      For example, for Interleaf, we did this to /interleaf/ileaf5/hp700/bin:
      -rwxr-sr-x   1 compsci  lan0     5255168 Jan 29  1992 ileaf

Note also that you may or may not get Flex licensing to work with
the FDDI daughter card, particularly if there is no Ethernet card.
Under 9.01, the Flex utility lmhostid would not return the LAN
address from the FDDI daughter card. This may have been fixed at 9.03
or 9.05, but that has not been confirmed. Additionally, PHNE_4003
is supposed to fix the problem for 9.01.

(Thanks to Richard Lloyd, Liverpool and Greg Vasquez, HP)


rich@globes.com (Rich Mirabella) says that FDDI stuff is mostly fixed
now for more recent versions of HP-UX ... and that more info about
FLEXlm can be found at  http://www.globetrotter.com