Welcome to the spock license generator

This form will generate a 30-day trial license for spock. You can generate licenses for as many machines as you like. Please enter the fully qualified machine name(s) here. Please put only machine names here, one per line, with no preceding spaces, no comments or any other text.

After the license has been generated, you should save it as the file $SPOCK/LICENSE. That's all there is to it!

If you wish to get a permanent license for spock, follow the instructions here.

Having trouble?

Be sure that you're using the offical name of the machine as returned by gethostbyname, and that the domain information is included as well. If gethostbyname doesn't return fully-qualified domain name (FQDN), i.e. there's no domain information, you should include the domain in the name you enter below, and set $SP_DOMAIN in the system Spockrc file ($SPOCK/Spockrc).

For those users not on a network, you should enter the hostname, followed by a made-up domain name which will be unique to you, such as your name. For example, I'd use photon.jon.christopher for a machine called "photon". Therefore, I'd enter photon.jon.christopher in the field below, and set the SP_DOMAIN variable in the file $SPOCK/Spockrc to the fake domain name:

TEXT> set $SP_DOMAIN=jon.christopher
Also make sure your /etc/hosts file has the full domain name in it. For example, it should read:

127.0.0.1 photon.jon.christopher photon localhost

and not just

127.0.0.1 photon localhost

You should verify that the fake name works with this program.

Mail Author: Jon A. Christopher