if so, I appologize (I'm a newbie) I've installed Fedora Directory on an RHEL 4 box. The install went well (no errors reported) and I can see the server using Directory Express, but starting the console appears to hang the software. I found a posting on one of the RedHat sites that said that the behavior I see is a bug that results in the dialog asking for a login is displayed behind the splash screen. The posting also said that the bug was reported by people using 1/5 or greater versions of the java_vm. Soooo, I went back to 1.4 and when I invoke the console I pass in another option (-xnologo) that is supposed to supress the splash screen. But, the behavior is the same. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks! steve -- Steve Strong Math and Computer Science Washington High School 2205 Forest Dr. SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 http://crwash.org mailto:sstrong at crwash.org