it really crashed the system. pondering why... > cd /proc > cd devices > cat * > .... connection to server lost .... -- .~. Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. In Linux we trust. / v \ news://news.hkpcug.org /( _ )\ http://www.linux-sxs.org ^ ^ 2.4.19 7:45pm up 14 min, 0 users, load average: 1.00, 1.04, 0.71