On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:10 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > thanx, indeed, gedit does that..that's rediculous..I haveta remove the > backed up file each time I make a change with gedit...as I said, > rediculous..cheers, though, as that removes 1 thought to why snort is > now not even trying to initialize at boot..cheers. If you've been editing rc.local with gedit, you may find that rc.local is no longer an executable file, and that might account for it not running. # chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.local Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>