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Reclaiming floating licenses

Reclaiming floating licenses By default, licenses remain checked out until a license is not used for 1 hour. To make sure licenses are checked back in, you will need to completely quit the application and restart with a project that does not use the license (just closing the project will not check back in the license). In the case where the host application crashes or is killed, a license may remain checked out one hour. If you need your licenses sooner than one hour you will need to stop and start the license server software. Linux
You’ll want to perform any operations below ON THE SERVER running as root! To restart the license server:
  • run killall -9 rvlserver (to kill the server).
  • run /sbin/rvlserver & (to start the server in the background).
  • run /sbin/rvlstatus to make sure the license(s) is(are) being properly read.
Macintosh
You’ll want to perform all the operations below ON THE SERVER running as an administrator! To restart the license server:
  • double-click on /Applications/REVisionEffects/RVLKillServer (and answer “Yes” when it asks you if you want to kill the server). This will kill the older version license server
  • double-click on /Applications/REVisionEffects/RVLStartServer
  • double-click on /Applications/REVisionEffects/RVLDisplayStatusInSafari to make sure the license(s) is(are) being properly read.
Windows
Windows: You’ll want to perform any operations ON THE SERVER below running as an administrator. To restart the license server:
  • right-click on C:/Program Files (x86)/REVisionEffects/FloatingLicenseServer/RVLKillServer.bat, and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR, even if you are logged in as an admin. Then type in YES when it asks you if you want to kill the server).
  • right-click on C:/Program Files (x86)/REVisionEffects/FloatingLicenseServer/RVLStartServer.bat and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR, even if you are logged in as an admin.
  • double-click on C:/Program Files (x86)/REVisionEffects/FloatingLicenseServer/RVLShowStatusInBrowser.bat to make sure the license(s) is(are) being properly read.