[Nottingham] flexLM and clock error

[Roger Light]

Hi Dave,

> We have a piece of comericial software with a flexLM licence, running on a RH9 machine. A
> while ago we had a couple of power related problems (one surge that blew the motherboard,
> and then the boss blew the power with some dodgy soldering!), which caused the clock to 
> reset (sometime in 1929?). Once this was set again most things ran fine, but the licence file 
> had identified that the clock had been 'diddled with' (I believe that is the technical term), and
> this software will now not run.

I had a similar problem and it turned out that some files had a
modification date that was in the future compared to the computer
clock. This leads it to thinking the clock has been dropped back.

I can't remember which files they were though, sorry.

Cheers,

Roger