MATLAB: Am I receiving license manager error -16 when starting FLEXlm 8.0d on a Solaris 9 machine

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I receive license manager error -16 when starting FLEXlm 8.0d on a Solaris 9 machine.

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This issue has been corrected in MATLAB 6.5.1 (R13SP1). MATLAB 6.5.1 (R13SP1) is now supported on Solaris 9. If you are using a previous version, see the following workaround:
To change the limit of your file descriptors, add the following line in the SOL2 section of the $MATLABROOT/etc/lmopts.sh script.
 ulimit -n 1024
This line can be added anywhere in the SOL2 section as long as it is not in the IF Statement. Note that $MATLABROOT refers to the MATLAB root directory.
If this does not solve the problem, you can also try putting the above ulimit statement in /etc/init.d/lmgrd right before calling lmboot instead of in lmopts.sh.
For Example:
In lmopts.sh file Sol2 section, add the ulimit -n 1024 line following the line beginning with LM_BOOT_FRAGMENT.
 #****************************************************************************
 # Platform specific section:
 #****************************************************************************
 #
    case "$ARCH" in
 sol2)
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # LM_ROOT and AUTOMOUNT_MAP originally set by install_matlab
 #
     LM_ROOT=/home/whsiao/Madmax/R13_Indiv/etc
     AUTOMOUNT_MAP=
     ARCH="$ARCH"
     LM_BOOT_FRAGMENT=/etc/init.d/lmgrd
            ulimit -n 1024 
 #
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