Oops, forgot output format of runlevel, sorry: runlevel=`runlevel | cut -c3` in the previous post. Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg