On 13/8/17 12:00 pm, Fred Smith wrote:

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 06:49:01PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:

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On 8/12/2017 6:25 PM, Fred Smith wrote:

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I just stumbled over /var/log/CodeMeter, which contains a number of large log files.

I know I'm getting old and forgetful, but I can't remember intentionally installing that package.

Yum just says "installed" instead of listing a repo.

Looking at codemeter.com, it seems to work with something called a "cm stick". I don't have one, don't want one, and never heard of them.

Is there any reason I should be leery of just "yum remove"ing the package?

thanks!

sounds like its dongle based copy protection for some application program. you running any small market big dollar applicaitons, like CAD? they are the most frequent user of such services.

Nope. not me. home desktop/mailserver/play/light-coding box.

could it be part of some exploit?

Hi Fred,

You and John have it right. I used to administer a license server and that was exactly what it was. We had a USB stick to plug into the server and the CodeMeter daemon serve the licenses. There were a couple of ports, default was 22350 IIRC, open that the clients talked to over an embedded web server.

The logs did fill up but for a license administrator they were useful: which clients checked out what, when and if the license was returned. Is there anything useful in the logs you have?

When I installed it, the package was standalone with no dependencies that weren't on my C7 box anyway. I doubt that you'll find it in any repos. I used to have to download directly from codemeter.com and do a "yum localinstall". Assuming you have no licenses it should be safe to remove.

Otherwise, no idea why its on your server.

Cheers, -pete