On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:15:04PM +0100, Tom Brown wrote: > agree 100% BUT alas if you want to install oracle server then you still > need X which to me is madness but thats just the way it is. If i need to > install oracle then i make sure the init level is 3 and not 5 Can't you do the installation remotely? Having just the X libs there isn't as big of a risk as having an actual setuid-root X server. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>