For tomcat users who log in to their Unix servers over SSH: ssh 2.9 has a bug where if you have any background processes running, on logout your SSH will hang. Adding nohup to tomcat.sh, just before the calls to $JAVACMD will alleviate this, but will also leave the file "nohup.out" in the dir you start tomcat.sh from: nohup $JAVACMD... ----- stephan Generic Universal Computer Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.einsurance.de Office: +49 (89) 552 92 862 Handy: +49 (179) 211 97 67 "...control is a degree of inhibition, and a system which is perfectly inhibited is completely frozen." -- Alan W. Watts