Start-stop-daemon is too clever for its own good. That's because of the way --exec works - it will never work across upgrades because the binary inode number has changed. So now that we use that, at apache-perl upgrade I see apache-perl fail to stop and then fail to restart. Should --exec be removed from stop), or should I change to using restart? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer