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From: xxwrp@picasso.lerc.nasa.gov (Bill Palenske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: framemaker installation
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Date: 6 Mar 91 21:54:18 GMT
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	Preface: I don't know much about how FrameMaker functions.
	Pardon any malapropisms.

	It's been suggested to me that I install FrameMaker (SGI) on a
	non-SGI platform that serves as a disk farm ( Call this machine
	DF ).  I gather that the impetus behind this suggestion was that
	DF would then function as our license server.  The following
	quote from the release notes seems to be pretty clear that
	this cannot be done.

		The license server host is the machine that runs the 
		license server _process_. It can be any machine; it does
		not have to be the machine on which you have installed 
		the FrameMaker files ( the installation machine ).
		
	I guess then that a followup suggestion may be:  why not put
	the FrameMaker software on DF and nfs mount it on some SGI which
	would function as our license server.  I suppose this could be
	made to work.  I'm not enthusiastic about this proposal.  It seems
	like a lot of bother.  Moreover, it would probably considerably
	complicate matters vis-a-vis host ids and getting passwords.  

	The problem is we have a disk space crunch on most of our SGIs 
	( we're looking at getting some more disks, but that is quite a 
	ways down the line. )  I do have one SGI that has enough space 
	and which I would like to make the license server, but it is 
	frequently used for special processing and I am reluctant to take 
	too many cycles away from that.  My question here is: how does the
	license server work?  Is it a deamon which will be quiescent/sleeping
	most of the time or what?

	Finally, from reading the release notes it is not clear to me how
	_client_ machines are set up to use FrameMaker.  Does one nfs mount 
	things from the license server, install actual binaries on clients,
	what?   

	Email will do.  Thanks.