my license had expired and I renew it but it is still expired what should I do?

hi ,

my license had expired one month ago and I was busy enough to not renew it immediately but for now I have renewed it but when I login to my DA's control panel I still can see the expired license message .

is there anything special I need to do rather than buying new license?
do I have to make my hands dirty with commands again?

regards.

update license in the control panel

thats the problem whenever I want to do that I can only see this message :

License has expired

means there is no control panel

Log into the server through your shell account.

Find in these forums instructions on how to update the license through the shell.

Update through the shell.

Jeff

Follow this if ur license expired before u renewed it.

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=30