well, my system went down yesterday, lock up suddenly when I was in X. no mouse response, nor keyboard response. so I went to another machine, tried to ping it. and no response. To me this is total lock-up if ping won't even respond. so I was wondering, is there a feature like the "take a system dump" in AIX? Momma always said: life is like `. a box of 95; .__ o __. you never know |__/|__| if you're gonna /\ < > /\ crash ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]