Net and Fester. Sean -- kill -HUMP <pid>: Process immediately stops what it's doing and fork(2)s a child process, which runs as a daemon. -- Sean Reifschneider, 1998 Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python