To get a MULTINET license, you need the VMS checksum.
For my version of VMS, there is no way that I know of to get the checksum
of VMS, I tried everything. I even dumped the license file to look
manually. I could see remains of MULTINET in there, but as far as I could
tell I could not see any checksum for anything installed in my system. I
am trying to get a working PAK for MUTLINET 4.1:
Process Software MultiNet V4.1 Rev A, MicroVAX 3100, VAX/VMS V5.5-2
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First of all, for anyone interested I ran the following command in an
effort to fix a totally different problem (explaining *why* would not help
at this point):
$ @MULTINET:PAK-DELETE
I had recorded everything I could, including what I thought was the license
key before I did this, with the thought I could just re-install. I
rebooted and since then I have not been able to get into multinet.
The next step would have been to run this command, but given multinet was
not working, I did *not* run
$ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSLICENSE
so MULTINET is still in the license database, at least I see it when I DUMP
the file. I am not sure if running @SYS$UPDATE:VMSLICENSE cleans the PAK
info out of the database after you delete the PAK from [???] somewhere.
Great. So I went to the place to request a new checksum. Problem is they
want my VAX checksum first. I can't get that value, so I am stuck
I tried commands
$ SHOW LICENSE [everything there is]
I can get an output, but CHECKSUM is not listed like it is mentioned here:
http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=10&thread_…
Is there a way to HEX edit some kind of hack to trick the system into
thinking the license is OK? A bit to flip? Everything was working
perfectly before I ran that @#$%! delete command! multinet had a working
IP and FQDM and email was working, etc.
Anyone coming to VCF East? I will bring the system to exhibit. It still
has DECnet and BASIC keys running. I will improvise.
Bill
