MATLAB Installation Guide for Unix

Checking the License Manager Daemons

The license manager must be running before you can start MATLAB. To determine whether the license manager daemons are operating, run the lmstat command on the license server (usually the file server):

• cd $MATLAB/etc
  lmstat -a
  

On computers running System V UNIX, enter

• ps -ef | grep lm
  

Check the output of these commands to determine if both the license manager daemon (lm_TMW.ld) and the vendor daemon (MLM) are running. Only one version of each process should be running. Remove all duplicate daemons manually. To stop processes, you must be logged in as superuser; then execute the command

• kill pid_of_daemon
  

where pid_of_daemon is the process ID of the daemon. If either the license manager or vendor daemon is not running, restart the daemons by running lmstart, located in the $MATLAB/etc directory.

Problems Starting MATLAB

Viewing the License Manager Log File