Last Wednesday 11 August 2004 06:31, Tracey Hytry was like: > > I always turn off crond before I start doing any serious recording. I > > also turn off syslogd and anything else that can cause a problem. None > > of this will compromise your system. I set up a script to turn > > everything off and one to turn everything on. Qjackctl has slots to run > > these. > > > > Jan > > I like your way the best so far, thanks. Ah. Qjackctl slots - I've looked at these many times thinking surely they could be useful, but not connected up the dots. Thanks for this suggestion, I shall try it too. cheers tim hall