Pardon me -- syslogd does seem to be running. Argh... is there any way to get it to emit messages to tty3? My idea was to add 'tail -f' to init.d/rcS, but we don't have tail on busybox. So I guess my request would be this for busybox: - tail - enable ping -- .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>