\_ If the machine is running unattended, it cleans out any processes that \_ for one reason or another fail to terminate. \_ \_ Netscape is perhaps the most heinous example of this (though that \_ wouldnt be running unattended...) .. a crashed netscape can persist \_ even after you exit from X! You're running what kind of software on your production box? SW that doesn't clean up after itself. Yi. Netscape [browser] on a production box? Double Yi. That's almost as bad as the fabled opengl screensaver on a NT server box.... David