speaking of things going into infinite loops and eating up CPU, is there any way to get rid of zombie processes? Good ol' kill -9 doesn't cut it...I don't want to reboot just to get rid of them :( --- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. (jinn@irony.org) finger jinn@irony.org for PGP public key