John Gallagher wrote: [snip] > If I restart one of the > processes it can and sometimes does kill the other process. > > service sshd restart will kill the process started as sshd-ext. [snip] Makes sense: [snip] > SSHD=/usr/sbin/sshd [snip] > stop() { > echo -n $"Stopping $prog:" > killproc $SSHD -TERM RETVAL=$? killproc is using "/usr/sbin/sshd" as the first argument. That means it looks for the /var/run/sshd.pid file. I believe you will need to make a copy of the sshd binary, or rewrite the script without killproc. -- William Hooper