The dailies have switched to 2.6.17, so can this be closed now? As for the security issue, note that you can turn off sysrq via proc: # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq Of course, if its configured on in the kernel it is on by default, so we may want to either patch the kernel to initialize sysrq_enabled = 0, or submit a bug to procps asking for /etc/sysctl.conf to disable it by default. -- dann frazier