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SAS license renewal steps Linux from putty

Here I have given SAS license renewal steps. This is the output directly taken from putty while renewing license in our environment. While renewing license I didn't restart the SAS services. Licence updated successfully without any issues.

Green color text are system generated. Blue color text is the input.

[sas94@fghg99 9.4]$ cd /sas/software/SASFoundation/9.4


[sas94@fghg99 9.4]$ ./sassetup

Welcome to SAS Setup, the program used to renew your SAS software.

 Some conventions used throughout SAS Setup are:
       *   indicates which menu selection is the default choice
     ( )   indicates the default response to a prompt
       !   starts a sub-shell on your system
       h   displays help for a menu selection or prompt
       g   goes back to a previous menu selection or prompt
       q   quits SAS Setup at any point


Setup Utilities Menu
--------------------
 * 1.  Renew SAS Software
   -------------------------------
   g: Go back   q: Quit    h: Help
   -------------------------------
Action? (1) 1


SAS Installation Data (SID) is a text file required to install a customized
version of SAS. The SID was e-mailed to your SAS Installation Representative. If
you would like to receive the SID via e-mail now, please use URL to retrieve it
before continuing the installation.

    http://support.sas.com/adminservices-SID

Specify the file containing SAS Installation Data.
-->/home/sas/SAS94_XXXXXX_NNNNNNNN_LINUX_X86-64.txt

SAS Installation Data retrieved successfully.

 _______________________________________________________________________________

 Applying SAS Installation Data
Please wait...

 SAS Installation Data application is complete.

 _______________________________________________________________________________

 Setup Utilities Menu
--------------------
 * 1.  Renew SAS Software
   -------------------------------
   g: Go back   q: Quit    h: Help
   -------------------------------
Action? (1) q


Do you want to exit the SAS installation? (N)
-->y
Please review your installation log file, found in:
  /sas/software/SASFoundation/9.4/install/admin/logs/install_log_XXXXX.XXX
Exiting SAS Setup...
 

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