Christian Zimmermann writes
Such messages typically happen after a reboot, but this time they do not seem to disappear. Any clue what the issue is?
rid down. pid still present. I checked, did not see any activity. Here is what I did: krichel@wombat:~$ slogin nebka -l aras Linux nebka 2.4.27-2-686 #1 Wed Nov 30 21:55:37 JST 2005 i686 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You have new mail. Last login: Thu Feb 14 18:17:35 2008 from fondue.econ.uconn.edu Iku's aliases setup [.my-alias] 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:~$ htop aras@nebka:~$ rid stop Killing control_daemon with pid 15575 /home/aras/acis/bin/rid: line 63: kill: (15575) - No such process Wait for control_daemon to exit................................. gave up waiting! Probably the daemon is busy. aras@nebka:~$ ps axf | grep perl 1057 ? Ss 0:00 a.cgi (pperl) 31626 ? S 0:16 \_ a.cgi (pperl) 31629 ? S 0:17 \_ a.cgi (pperl) 31663 ? S 0:16 \_ a.cgi (pperl) 31686 ? S 0:16 \_ a.cgi (pperl) 31690 ? S 0:16 \_ a.cgi (pperl) aras@nebka:~$ rm acis/RI/daemon.pid aras@nebka:~$ rid start going to start RI daemon (/home/aras/acis/bin/control_daemon.pl) done aras@nebka:~$ exit logout Connection to nebka closed. krichel@wombat:~$ Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel