Hi David, Apropos the autostart, I played around somewhat and came up with the following (which I will also send also by private email). There are bound to be better ways of doing it, but it might at least serve a proof of concept. You might be able to substitute it for the line that presently autostarts Netscape in YAST2. Regards, Geoff #!/bin/bash ########################################################################### # This script checks if Netscape or Firestarter is running. If either is not # running, then it is started. If it is running, then do nothing vis a vis # that program. # The assumption is that the script is run by root. The Firestarter part # would need tweaking if it is not. ########################################################################### # grep the process tree for running instances of the programs. # Redirect the output to files, which will be of zero # length if the no running instance is found. There is probably a nicer # way to do this, but it appears to work. ps auxc | grep netscape > netscape_running ps auxc | grep firestarter > firestarter_running # If the netscape file is of zero length then start netscape as a background job if ! test -s netscape_running; then netscape & fi # Ditto for firestarter if ! test -s firestarter_running; then firestarter & fi _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com