Internal: How to find and kill lmgrd processes on Linux machines

Topic:
How to find and kill lmgrd processes on Linux machines.

Discussion:
To be sure no instance of the lmgrd program for IDL is running execute the lmdown program (as root) (located in the bin subdirectory of the main IDL directory). Then to be sure that the license manager is down, execute the following command to see if IDL lmgrd or idl_lmgrd processes are running:

        ps -ef | grep lm
 
or for some systems:
 
        ps -ax | grep lm
or
        ps -aux | grep lm

If the lmdown command did not properly shut down the lmgrd program(s) kill the process(es) manually. Try a "nice" kill first on the lmgrd process (this should also gracefully shut down the idl_lmgrd process); Do not use the -9 option to killSolution.