Hi, months ago I compiled 2.6.15/2.6.16 kernel on my FC4 boxes. the vanila kernels (2.6.15.6 & 2.6.16.23) are directly downloaded from www.kernel.org and compiled without any changes. kernels runs pretty smooth and in fact no other engineers reports any problems with the kernels, but today when I ran "lsof" command I found there are the following problematic entries related to kernel, please help. ... init 1 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) udevd 746 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) syslogd 1901 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) klogd 1903 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) portmap 1918 rpc mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) rpc.statd 1936 rpcuser mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) rpc.idmap 1960 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) acpid 2033 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) xinetd 2063 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) ntpd 2082 ntp mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) rpc.rquot 2100 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) rpc.mount 2187 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) amd 2205 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) nrpe 2220 nagios mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) crond 2259 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) atd 2275 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) dbus-daem 2283 dbus mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) hald 2291 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) hald-addo 2296 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com