At 13:53 28/02/2002, you wrote: >better still why don't these get trapped in /var/log/messages ? That's down to your own syslog configuration. Read "man syslog.conf". -- Julian Field Teaching Systems Manager jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science Tel. 023 8059 2817 University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ