The proper fix is to upgrade to the packages provided by SuSE. In addition to fixing the format string bug, this update also changes heartbeat to perform processing of network packets as user "nobody" instead of root. How do I know that heartbeat performs processing of network

Hello Olaf, packets as user "nobody" or "root"? "ps aux | grep heartbeat" tells me that heartbeat runs under the UID of root.

Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply the update. I didn't update heimdal, and I used "rpm -U" to update heartbeat. Does that matter for the correct function of heartbeat? Bye Uli -- Ulrich Roth IMPACT Business & Technology Consulting GmbH Im Mediapark 8 / KölnTurm D-50670 Koeln Phone +49-221-93 70 80-29 Fax +49-221-93 70 80-15 E-Mail: roth@impact.de