I have one of those terminal switches so I can use one monitor and one keyboard and work out of a Fedora Core 2 box and a MSWxxx box at the same time. I just switched back to the FC2 box, and in the open shell window was the following: [user@workstation user]$ Display all 2727 possibilities? (y or n) [user@workstation user]$ Nothing more. The terminal session still seems to be responsive. Neither top nor ps waux show anything I recognize as deviant or malignant. A search of google for "2727 possibilities" turns up one blog and one post to a forum where the blogger had apparently asked the question, but no answer. Anyone with any idea what's going on with this? Should I be pulling the ethernet and starting in on forensics? (I do need a good excuse to scrub and install FC3 anyway.) -- Joel Rees <rees@xxxxxxxxxxx> digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** <http://www.ddcom.co.jp> **