To continue uncreasing my uptime value I would like to not have to shutdown the machine at the end of each day. However I assume the end of day shutdown is not necessary on a linux box. The reason I want to do it is that from time to time we have power outages and power outages are not nice to a logged on running linux system. I am wondering if there is any state I could leave the machine at to ensure that it can be brought back again, should the power fail whilst I am sleeping? My current thoughts are to issue the command 'init 1' but then should the 'attacker' guess my root password I am finished. Yes I am paranoid and the machine is on a dial up connection to my ISP with dynamic IP allocation from my ISP. I wonder which is the safest method to leave a machine, init 1 or powered off. any comments? -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================