Christian Zimmermann writes
What's this server gone away business?
not sure but I did krichel@wombat:~$ slogin nebka -l aras Linux nebka 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 aras@nebka:~$ htop aras@nebka:~$ ps axf | grep perl 29068 pts/1 S+ 0:00 \_ grep perl 2501 ? Ss 0:00 a.cgi (pperl) 28805 ? S 0:03 \_ a.cgi (pperl) 28864 ? S 0:03 \_ a.cgi (pperl) 28866 ? S 0:03 \_ a.cgi (pperl) 28875 ? S 0:02 \_ a.cgi (pperl) 28892 ? S 0:02 \_ a.cgi (pperl) aras@nebka:~$ rid start going to start RI daemon (/home/aras/acis/bin/control_daemon.pl) pid file /home/aras/acis/RI/daemon.pid is present aborting aras@nebka:~$ rm /home/aras/acis/RI/daemon.pid aras@nebka:~$ rid start going to start RI daemon (/home/aras/acis/bin/control_daemon.pl) done Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel