On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:12:25PM -0500, sly wrote: > none of the httpd commends output anything! > httpd -v - nothing and so on... > what am i doing wrong? The SELinux policy prevents httpd from accessing the terminal by default. Make sure you have installed all the latest updates, and run: # setsebool -P httpd_tty_comm 1 as root to permanently enable terminal access for httpd. An alternative is to use: # httpd | cat See also: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/ Regards, joe