Thank you all that answered my questions about syslog repeated messages. It really was the "news" lines in syslog.conf. Just commenting them worked out the problem. Thank you again, and happy new year for all! Fernando -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com