I forgot to mention in my previous post, with the same laptop (IBM ThinkPad T23) and RH9, I sometimes hear some HD activity when everything should be idle. I ran TOP and found that UPDATEDB is running. What is it, precisely? What can I do to prevent it from running? Thanks, BP ===== Blaise Pascal pascal256@xxxxxxxxx Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com