>need to apply a patch to make probing work.  At one time, the patch was
>available
>from ftp.lsoft.com but I don't see it there at the moment. It could just
>be me being blind/uncaffienated thought. ;)

Still there.

 ftp://ftp.lsoft.com/listserv/unix/contrib

I suspect you were looking in the root CONTRIB directory :)

Nathan