Greetings.

We are implementing a system using Java to communicate between our HP3000 969 and an NT server to send data back & forth. I downloaded the latest version of Java in December 2000, and it was running happily in testing (well, other than 1 show-stopper, but that's another story). We then put up a firewall and locked down the ports being used, with the result that the 2 Java agents on the 2 boxes could not talk to each other, which resulted in the software being rewritten.

Now, I know virtually nothing about Java, so I'm no real help. The software now uses "rmid", an RMI daemon to register services being used (??). However, when I run rmid, it dies with the following:

shell/iX : rmid
Activation.main: an exception occurred: exception while taking snapshot; nested exception is: 
        java.io.IOException: System call error
sun.rmi.log.LogException: exception while taking snapshot; nested exception is: 
        java.io.IOException: System call error
        at sun.rmi.log.ReliableLog.<init>(ReliableLog.java:116)
        at sun.rmi.log.ReliableLog.<init>(ReliableLog.java:135)
        at sun.rmi.server.Activation.main(Compiled Code)

The developer knows Java but nothing of the HP3000, so he's of little use.
I know nothing of Java, so I'm of no use.

Can anyone out there please shed a little light on this? Things to check? Switches to push or pull???
TIA,
Greg.

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