Today, one of my computers output several of the following to the serial console: Heyho! status is now :1 Heyho! Heyho! status is now :3 status is now :2 ... about twenty more .... or something to that effect. There were no error messages in the /var/log/messages file. There was no degradation of performance at the time, and I noticed nothing else unusual. So far, the problem has not reoccured, and everything looks normal. The terminal was connected to ttyS0 of a DEC Alpha XL300, Redhat 5.0/2.1.107. "Echo messages to COM1" was NOT enabled in .config. I was running a telnet session on it to a headless Dell P90 running SuSE 5.2/2.0.33. So, I'm not real sure which machine it came from :^) I've got a really bad feeling about this one. Can someone shed some light on this? Thanks in advance. -- Robb Romans So I shot 'em down One by one Southwest Texas State University Then I left 'em 'long the rails www.swt.edu/~rr44607 I only use my gun Whenever kindness fails -- Robert Earl Keen - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e