I wrote: > I just ran update-rc.d but it has options I don't understand. It seems I > can't win with this. I will try to find a man page for update-rc.d. I read the man page and then ran: update-rc.d local defaults (I believe that was it) It did appear to work. I rebooted after removing the old startup stuff and sentry and other programs started. Now if I could just figure out how to get the laptop to start the network card when the machine starts. thanks -- Andrew