lmborrow(1)lmborrow(1)NAMElmborrow - borrow a license
SYNOPSISlmborrow [ -c license_file_list ] [ -v ] [ -verbose ] ...
lmborrow { vendor | all } enddate [ time ]
lmborrow [ -clear|-status ]
DESCRIPTIONlmborrow supports borrowing of licenses with the BORROW attribute and
must be run on the machine where licenses will or have been borrowed. It
sets LM_BORROW in either the registry (Windows) or in $HOME/.flexlmrc
(UNIX).
To initiate borrowing, the user can run lmborrow from the command line or
through lmtools:
lmborrow {vendor | all} enddate [time]
where:
vendor The vendor daemon name that serves the licenses to be borrowed,
or all specifies all vendor daemons in that license server.
enddate [time]
Date the license is to be returned in dd-mmm-yyyy format. time
is optional and is specified in 24-hour format (hh:mm) in the
client's local time. If time is unspecified, the checkout lasts
until the end of the given end date.
For example:
lmborrow xyzd 20-aug-2001 13:00
To borrow licenses for the desired vendor, on the same day and the same
machine that the user runs lmborrow, run the application(s) to check out
the license(s). If you run the application(s) more than once that day, no
duplicate licenses are borrowed. No licenses are borrowed if the
application is run on a day different than the date borrowing was to be
initiated.
To print information about features borrowed on a machine:
lmborrow-status
This is useful for finding out which features have been borrowed while
the machine is disconnected from the network.
To clear the LM_BORROW setting in the registry or $HOME/.flexlmrc:
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lmborrow(1)lmborrow(1)lmborrow-clear
Clearing the LM_BORROW setting will prevent any more licenses from being
borrowed. A user might do this after he has borrowed licenses for
features that will be used offline if (before disconnecting from the
network) he wants to run an application that checks out additional
features served by vendor that should not be borrowed. Clearing LM_BORROW
does not clear borrowing information for already-borrowed licenses.
OPTIONS-v Prints the FlexLM version of the utility.
-verbose Prints longer description for all errors found. The output from
the utilities may be harder to read with this option, but is
useful for diagnostics. (v6.0+ only)
-c license_file_list
Use the specified license_file(s). If this switch is not
specified, lmborrow looks for the environment variable
LM_LICENSE_FILE. If that environment variable is not set,
lmborrow looks for the file
/usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat.
NOTES
IRIX systems typically install licenses in /var/flexlm/license.dat, not
in /usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat.
SEE ALSOlmutil(1)
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