When starting up the nfsserver under Kernel 2.4.2 I get the error message lockdsvc : invalid argument. Searching the Internet (thanks Google!), I found some messages in the linux-kernel mailing list that there is no need to start rpc.lockd from the init scripts any more when using rhe 2.4.X kernels as it is loaded automatically on mount. I commented out these line from /etc/rc.d/nfsserver: checkproc -n lockd || \ /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd and restarted the NFS server. The error is gone and so far everything seems to work. Two questions: 1) Am I inviting problems by commenting out these lines? Is there a security issue? 2) If they are no longer needed, could SuSE please fix the scripts. Thanks, Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life, avi@CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux!