ok, something wierd, strange and/or bizaar is going on with my system. overnight I have had gnorpm totally lock my box to the point that it required a hard reboot (and pick up the pieces later). the network card (a 3Com product) lost its connection (ifdown and ifup worked successfully twice, but on the third time, ifdown segfaulted ) and my system self rebooted for not discernable reason that I've been able to find. What concerns me most atm, is the NIC. could it be getting old (dying)? the behavior is such that it will remian dependable for days, weeks, months and then pull this crap and then the problem goes away again. Could it be a software problem with redhat 7.0? what about a bad module? anything else I am missing here? Hawke -- visit my webpage: http://pretorian.ath.cx/~proudhawk I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own - No. 6