Blutgens writes: You must be new. Uptime means money. Uptime means someone don't have to babysit the box, and that your clients don't have to wait for the servers to come back online. Just because you haven't rebooted doesn't mean there haven't been any service outages. Apache gets sick, FTP servers die, configurations change, software is upgraded, et c. Uptime does, in fact, mean very little. You must be new. There isn't that many security holes found in the kernel if you build it right. You just have to select `Guard against unforeseen vulnerabilities' in `make menuconfig'. The reason not everybody knows about this handy config option is that it isn't part of the official kernel distribution. Are you going to release your patch any time soon? It's really cool. -- Chris www.innerfireworks.com How can you say this is not Eden?