Matt Alexander wrote: > > Might I suggest "kill -HUP " instead? I made the dire mistake once of leaving out the dash when I was trying to HUP a daemon... ie. kill 1 12345 > Yeah, my boss wasn't too happy about that... ouch! Remind me of the time I was cleaning up one of the professors research machines and did a "rm * .o" instead of a "rm *.o"... The machine had not been backed up in over a year. I remember sitting there thinking "this command should not take that l- SH!T" EBo --