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Visionfs licensing expires message

The other day a customer called saying that his Windows machines couldn't print to SCO printers. He runs Visionfs, which needs restarting every now and then, so I asked him to run "visionfs restart". He replied immediately "I already did. It won't start".

Hmmm.. probably netbios running or something silly like that. I sshed in to check.

# visionfs start
Starting SCO VisionFS 3.1 from /usr/vision/visionfs...
No licenses were located so VisionFS ran as a 30-day evaluation.
The evaluation period has run out. Contact SCO to obtain a valid license,
or uninstall VisionFS now.
Run
        /usr/vision/bin/visionfs license
when you have a valid license key.
 

Huh? That was a new one for me. I looked around, saw nothing out of the ordinary. For the heck of it, I ran "visionfs setup" and ran through it as though I were changing something but actually leaving it as it was. Happily, that fixed the problem. Visionfs now ran, and could be stopped and restarted without complaint. I've never seen that before, but I did later find a TA that suggested this procedure for similar symptoms.

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