> I've never had much luck doing that due to the problem of the portmapper > not running and other issues. Instead I'd use wget or curl to pull the > files from a web server. Or stuff them in an RPM and install them > normally. > > I use a little perl script which runs at boot and every so often which > pulls files from a central NFS server. Let me know if you'd like a copy. unfortunately though you can't get file perms and owners from a webserver. so wget isn't perfect. -sv