> Sorry to take a while to get back to you - I was watching Foyle's War :-) > > Thanks so much! Now I think I'm making progress... > > Thanks again It looks like this surrounding stop-start script has a flaw somewhere. In Redhat I just start script in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and don't use any of the service stop-start features. I'd advise to go that way. M.
