1. I have been running minicom to capture all the calls from our phone system into /dev/ttyS1. Works good, but I have been wondering if there is another way to do this as a background process and have the info captured to a file. I have tried: 'minicom -C file &' but minicom doesn't flush out to the file consistently. Any ideas? 2. I would like to begin tracking the volume going thru my 'firewall' by logging all the packets. I used to use the accounting (A, I beleive) rule in ipfwadm in the older kernel, but with ipchains I am having a tough time. I know this should be simple, but could someone throw me a bone? Mike mgcon@getnet.com http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon Phoenix, AZ USA