On 06Dec2006 20:09, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED <m_d_berger_1900@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:16:55 +0000, Andy Green wrote: | > Maybe it can help to strace the tail with 2>/tmp/dump on the end and | > have a look in there after killing the konsole? | | I just ran strace as suggested. The the same failure was seen. | Nothing jumped out at me in the strace, but then, it is the first | strace I have seen. I will gladly send it to anyone who wants to | see it. I'll look if you like. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It is time. Awaken, sleepers, for yet another herd of slow moving prey has swept into Peevetown, unaware of the sure fate of the fools that disturb the inhabitants. Shall it be a rending of flesh, and the lamentations of the sorely afflicted, or shall we be buried in a sea of drivel? - Woulffe <shampton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>