Hi, I'm having an interesting problem. I'm running listserv 14.4 on a server running AIX 5.1. I have the following entry in my /etc/rc.local for restarting listserv when I reboot my server /usr/bin/su - listserv "-c /usr/local/lsoft/go bg" listserv does start up, but the rc.local doesn't ever finish. A ps -ef shows the process still running, and none of the other processes after rc.local ever get started. In /etc/rc, I have the following: if [ -s /etc/rc.local ] then sh /etc/rc.local fi Here's the ls for /etc/rc.local -r-xr-xr-- 1 bin bin 1883 Dec 13 11:45 /etc/rc -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 338 Dec 13 12:28 /etc/rc.local root's shell is /bin/ksh. I also tried the following in /etc/rc.local and this also hung /etc/rc.local. su - listserv -c "/usr/local/lsoft/go bg" && echo 'Starting listserv' >> /dev/console;exit I also tried these combinations by commenting out the /etc/rc entries and putting the following in /etc/inittab, but the results were the same. rclocal:2:wait:/etc/rc.local >> /var/spool/mqueue/syslog If I run either of the /usr/local/lsoft/go commands from the command line, they work fine, but not from within rc.local. Any ideas? Joe DeBattista UCSF, ITS INTERNET: [log in to unmask]