Init is definately broken -- can we move the tail out of inittab and back into rcS, please??! Also, syslog is utterly broken as well. 'logger foo' makes no entry in /var/log/messages . There are a million bugs in dbootstrap but I've lost all my debugging capabilities, so I can't even really work on things until this is fixed. -- .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>