Using IDL with a local license server
March 17th, 2007 by admin
If you’re using IDL on a Mac, and also have the IDL license server running on the same Mac, it’s apparently necessary to set HOSTNAME in /etc/hostconfig. In the old days of OS X this was set by default in hostconfig with a line
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
but this is no longer the case in Tiger, and maybe Panther. Your hostname should be something like mycoolmac.myschool.edu. I would think using -AUTOMATIC- would work as well, since that should grab your hostname from your DNS.
Thanks to Jessica Lair for this info.
FYI, I’m now trying out MarsEdit for my posts, which I think I may like more than ecto.
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