hi ppl, i 've tried to to run bigbrother (web-based unix systems monitor ), on my linux-box but it doesn't seem to work, did i miss something? 1- when i type ./runbb.sh & at the prompt , i get the msg ..... Starting Big Brother Collectors... bb: CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd bb: CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd bb: CAN'T CONNECT TO bbdgrep: /var/adm/messages: No such file or directory grep: /var/adm/messages: No such file or directory bb: CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd ..... 2-otherwise, when i type bbd at the prompt, i get the msg bbd: BBHOME is not set in the environment! Make sure you're running bbd from runbb.sh! i did already the setting up of BBHOME, pls have a look at the following attachment! --------------- #!/bin/sh # runbb.sh # BIG BROTHER MAIN SCRIPT # Sean MacGuire - The MacLawran Group Inc. # Version 1.06 # Dec 30, 1997 ......... # BBHOME IS THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF BIG BROTHER!!! # YOU MUST SET THE NEXT LINE TO WHERE BB LIVES BBHOME="/usr/local/bb" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ export BBHOME if test "$BBHOME" = "" then echo "BBHOME IS NOT SET IN runbb.sh" echo "Please edit runbb.sh and correct this problem!" exit 1 fi ...... -------------------- what could be wrong? bye -fadi -- Fadi Sodah sodah@qatar.net.qa Tel: +974-712447 Doha-Qatar - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e