monitor.log filling up with license violations

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Our monitor.log file has filled up with messages like these:

200 Jun 19 14:01:29 Starting Dispatcher in the function SVmain
200 Jun 19 14:01:29 Generating default license
200 Jun 19 14:01:29 License Violation (License Server Contact)
200 Jun 19 14:01:29 Contacting license server
200 Jun 19 14:01:31 Successful reply from license server
009 Jun 19 14:01:31 Can't rename license file C:\MORPH3/license.key to C:\MORPH3
/license.old: Permission denied
000 Jun 19 14:01:31 Invalid license C:\MORPH3/license.key
200 Jun 19 14:01:31 Texis Monitor exiting due to error (pid 276)
200 Jun 19 14:02:05 Texis Monitor version 03.01.992447526 starting (pid 261)
200 Jun 19 14:02:05 Starting Dispatcher in the function SVmain
200 Jun 19 14:02:05 Generating default license
200 Jun 19 14:02:05 License Violation (License Server Contact)
200 Jun 19 14:02:05 Contacting license server
200 Jun 19 14:02:07 Successful reply from license server
009 Jun 19 14:02:07 Can't rename license file C:\MORPH3/license.key to C:\MORPH3
/license.old: Permission denied
000 Jun 19 14:02:07 Invalid license C:\MORPH3/license.key
200 Jun 19 14:02:07 Texis Monitor exiting due to error (pid 261)


We're legal, I swear! Do you know what's happening and how we can rectify it? monitor.log went from xero to 443 MB in a day, whether it was all from this I don't know.

[John]

Most of the problem appears to be that monitor program can not write to c:\morph3 to store the information, and keeps trying. Have you changed the permissions on c:\morph3? You may want to stop the monitor with

monitor -k

remove the license.key file and copy the license.upd file from the CD into c:\morph3 and restart monitor from the command line if the logged in user has permission to write to c:\morph3.

Another useful option for monitor on NT is

monitor -R

which will register monitor as a service, so that it will start at boot time with LocalSystem privileges. You do need to be an administrator to do that.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Looks like the license.key file was 0 bytes. I deleted it, and monitor created a new one, and all looks good, with one strange addendum.

Now, when I compile a script on this machine, this appears at the bottom:

<H6 ALIGN=right><A HREF="http://www.thunderstone.com/" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/texis.exe/copy.gif" BORDER=0 WIDTH=304 HEIGHT=11 ALIGN=top ALT="Texis & Webinator Copyright (C) 2001 THUNDERSTONE - EPI, Inc."></A></H6>

*That* never showed up before, and while we all like Thunderstone, we'd like to keep our search engine brand a bit more hidden from the users

[John]

You need to put the license.upd file from the CD into c:\morph3. If you have a license.did file you can copy that to license.upd. Then run

texis -update

to install the license.