To quote Phil Brutsche <pbrutsch@tux.creighton.edu>, # Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and will # work fine either way. Just out of curiosity, what does a 'shm' filesystem accomplish? I peek through what kernel docs I'm familiar with didn't explain much :( I don't even know what it's *supposed* to do :) Dave