Hey folks, I posted yesterday about the respawning issue, and today I gave Jean Francois access to my machine, and he found the problem in about 2 minutes... it seems somehow the tty terminals, had been changed into something other then a device. So Francois just set them back to devices, and viola! Anyway, thanks to everyone who might have posted on the matter. By the way, does anyone know what might cause these to no longer be classified as devices? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com