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[Christoph Hollweck]

Hello everyone,
I am working on Linux Mint, and when starting a simulation with LS-DYNA in the shell, I receive the following error related to the LSTC_FILE:

 *** License problem ***
 Local license:

 *** Error Environment variable LSTC_FILE not set!

However, all environment variables are correctly defined as follows:
LSTC_LICENSE=network; LSTC_LICENSE_SERVER=ourservername.

If I create an LSTC_FILE in the solver directory (containing #LICENSE_TYPE:network
#LICENSE_SERVER:ourservername), the simulation works fine. But normally, the LSTC_FILE should be ignored when the environment variables are set.

Why is the LSTC_FILE still being required?

Thanks for your help!

Christoph

[igandiko]

Are you sure the network license env is being set correctly? Perhaps you can try echo $LSTC_LICENSE_SERVER before running the job, to make sure env is set. You can also try running the job using a script. 

#!/bin/bash

export LSTC_LICENSE=network

export LSTC_LICENSE_SERVER=server-name

ls-dyna_solver_command i= input.k

[Christoph Hollweck]

Hello,

using

echo $LICENSE_TYPE
echo $LICENSE_SERVER

before starting the run returns the correct values. I usually run the job using a script.