I wanted to see the message.d log file in reverse order, to check the latest system messages, no not using tail command, since in tail its a finite number of lines but i may not know upto which line i may have to go. thanks in advance. Regards Yayati. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html