On Oct 3, 2004 at 00:38, Paul C D Dann in a soothing rage wrote: [...] >When logged on as rootwhen logged on as root, there was no "man service" >file, but the service command worked . Having used chkdsk, Samba started on >reboot so I no longer had a problem. There is a difference between 'su -', which gives you root's full environment, and 'su', which gives you some of root's priviledges. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 You tread upon my patience. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" 08:14:53 up 97 days, 1:29, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00