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>From: address@hidden >Organization: University of Northern Iowa >Keywords: 199912221723.KAA23061 LDM IDD NLDN Alan, >I'm attempting to make the pqact.conf change >for NLDN, as per your email. When I come to your step >5 (the kill statement), it tells me "No such process". Assuming that you are on the machine running the LDM and the LDM is, in fact running, do the following after logging in as the user running the LDM (typically 'ldm'): ps -eaf | grep pqact On our system running the LDM (Solaris x86), the ps command resulted in the following output: ps -eaf | grep pqact ldm 403 400 1 Dec 11 ? 144:29 pqact ldm 27808 15956 0 11:04:46 pts/4 0:00 grep pqact From this listing, we can see that the process ID for 'pqact' is 403. The kill -HUP invocation that needs to be run is, therefore: kill -HUP 403 >Maybe I'm not giving it the correct process ID; I'm >assuming the first number on the response to the ps >command in your step 4 is the process ID. It should be. What does your 'ps' listing look like? What is the operating system that is running on your LDM machine (Don says that findeisen is running Linux; what version is it)? >Thanks for your help. No problem. We should be able to get this straightened out pretty quickly so that you will not lose any NLDN data. By the way, in case you didn't notice David Knight's email to ldm-users a little while back, Suny Albany will be shutting down their systems for a couple of days starting December 31 (I believe). The reason is for scheduled network work, not Y2K things. David will be "throwing the switch" upon restart of the NLDN machine (striker) that changes the year format from YY to CCYY. >Merry Christmas and say hi to Don for me. Same to you, and I will pass along your wishes to Don. Tom