On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:14:41 PST, Joe DeBattista said: > 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" Try this: /usr/bin/su - listserv "-c /usr/local/lsoft/go bg &" You need the & to throw it into the background, as apparently 'go' isnt doing it for you....