> It hangs forever burning an CPU after the message that it is to start sshd. change /forever/almost forever/ ;-) Nov 6 03:37:23 linux001 sshd: Generating SSH2 DSA host key: Nov 6 03:50:30 linux001 sshd: DSA key generation succeeded I should have been more patient the first few attempts and have understood that generating the DSA key takes a while on a little machine... Rob