I got a new altera license and installed in on the new file server. Should now change the LM_LICENSE_FILE to 27000@new_file_server
I also could comment out the mgcld daemon line because there were no feature codes in the new license that use that daemon. In previous versions, that was there to check out the license for Modelsim. But now, that license is checked out using the Mentor Graphics license server which is on a different machine.