I seem to have become lost while following this thread. Would someone please post a reasonable description of the "autofs bug". Thanks. There was a discussion of the MBR security problem in February and/or March. The solution for this one is to install LILO as your MBR. IMHO, the discussion was a lot of heat over a non-problem that could be avoided by anyone who understands the basics of booting Linux. -- ptw miscelaneous endeavors (paul@cvanet.com)