Re: inetd :- I was rather under the impression that inetd typically listened for services that did not actually 'listen' themselves, nor have the required fork to fork themselves, but simply accepted stdin stdout FDs and did standard-io over them to communicate with the caller! Tim -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug