If the ESLMF-common pipe is accidentally destroyed, you can recover, by killing the License Manager and restarting it. Note that you cannot kill it using the eslmfgetpv k command, as the utility eslmfgetpv needs to use the input LM named pipe to instruct License Manager to terminate itself. Instead, you use the operation system command (kill).
If you receive the following errors (the first from eslmfgetpv), you can resolve them as follows:
ES License Manager is not running, or cannot be contacted
Resolution: Restart License Manager using the following command (with COBDIR set to point to the COBOL deployment system, and with root privilege):
$COBDIR/bin/eslm
License Manager will normally start. However, if the previously used License Manager is still running (even though not contactable), it will not start and you receive the follwoing message.
There is already a copy of ES License Manager running!
Resolution: Terminate the previously running uncontactable License Manager and restart it as follows:
ps -fea|grep eslm32
kill My-process-id
$COBDIR/bin/eslm