Running strings on the binary amongst other things produces an ip address (12.127.17.71) that resolves to dns-rs1.bgtmo.ip.att.net, and also: FreeBSD 4.5 x86 / Apache/1.3.22-24 (Unix) FreeBSD 4.5 x86 / Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) I went ahead and touch'ed .a, .uua, and .log in /tmp and chflags to set them immutable as I didn't see any real error handling on failed i/o operations. Some other strings not mentioned yet are: rm -rf /tmp/.a;cat > /tmp/.uua << __eof__; mv /tmp/tmp /tmp/init;export PATH="/tmp";init %s that's all i have time for at the moment.