i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do you know where i can find an example of something explaining how ? i am not really used to such script.. thank you Mat > > > Move your script to /etc/init.d, complete it with a start and stop part. > Then hook it into the system with "update-rc.d", you'll find the syntax > described in the manpage or by reading the examples from > grep update-rc.d /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst >