Thanks all for the info. I commented all setproctitle() in the sources and recompiled. Now the arguments options work. But why -e, i.e. expire, does not work with a running nntpcached daemon. It will kill present running daemons. On the other hand, I found that if the news server is down, nntpcached will return the cached article to the client, but it will hang the connection if there is a missed cache. Anybody else has such experience. Does anybody knows how do I make nntpcached send an error message on missed cache when the server is down. Thanks. Regards, Georges Chan. Hongkong Telecom IMS. Voice: (852) 2883 6400 Pager: (852) 7332 3260 Fax: (852) 2962 5185 www: http://home.netvigator.com/~gkchan Electronic: gkchan@netvigator.com