On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote: -|Howdy, -| -|For some weird reason I cannot stop any services such as mysql or http with /etc/rc.d/init.d/<servicename> stop. If I do it's says "done" but then if you do ps -ef |grep <servicename> it's still running. -| -|When I first found it we had a really custom install and I thought maybe I'd messed something up. I just finished reinstalling from scratch, and we have the same problem! -| -|One thing that might be causing the problem: our perl coder had to have perl 5.6. Is there eny chance that those init scripts use perl, and the new version is messing it up? I have never had trouble with init scripts before. -| Use your favorite editor and look at the /etc/rc.d/init.d/<script> If the first line is something like #!/bin/bash then it is a bash script not a perl script. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2