math and fedora

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 10:02 -0800, Stephen Walton wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 08:30 -0700, Summer Brooks wrote:
> > I work at a university, and have been installing Matlab on Linux
> > machines...Haven't yet tried it with FC3,
> 
> I have.  It works fine, though there's some glitch in the init.d file I
> use to start the license manager at boot time which FC3 exposed.  I
> haven't tracked it down yet.  Starting the license manager interactively
> from the command line is OK.


Hi Stephen,

Have you made sure that you're not starting the MatLAB license manager
as root?  I think you need to do something like:

  su -c /path/to/matlab/lm_boot ${SOME_NONROOT_USER}

hth,
Ed

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