I was bored over Christmas and after talking to Alex I implemented a nice little system (i'm still debugging and making it simpler), basically i took a streaming audio server, my mp3 collection and festival and have set up an internal ``radio station'', that plays music at random and then in between the songs it will play any messages - such as detected portscans / important incoming email / etc. then get back to the music. I'm still cleaning it up, but i thought you guys would be interested. I'll through up a webpage about it once It's finished with the code etc. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net