I don't need to trace the scripts any more right now because I figured out what I had done wrong or, in this case, failed to do. When the run level goes up from 0 to 5, one must have start scripts in each rc directory. I had just put a start script at rc2.d and a kill script at rc1.d. You must make the links to kill your process at each run level below where it starts and the links to start your process at every run level at and above the level where you want it to start. When I did that, it all came up like it should. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list