On Thu, 4 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: [snip] > shmget: shm filesystem not mounted [snip] Gaaaahhh RTFM! Shared memory is now implemented using a new (minimal) virtual file system, which you need to mount before programs can use shared memory. To do this automatically at system startup just add the following line to your /etc/fstab: none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0 That was taken straight from the HELP option of SysV IPC in the kernel config. Ian