At 10:17 PM 9/7/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I have rebooted my server twice now and it has falled to start a
>process. When I try to start it manually it says it is already running
>and gives a process ID. However when I try to kill the process or do a
>manual stop it says the process does not exist. It seems that the
>process has been locked at its last successful PID and now I am unable
>to clear it. Is there a way to manually clear this PID.
>
rebooting the server would kill any running process, what probably happened
is the original process opened a lock file somwhere and it still exists.
Find the file and delete is (as root) and then try restarting the service.
