a shmget(); it was returning EIDRM, identifier removed. When trying to create the segment. ntservs were faithfully trying to start it. Eventually the condition seems to have gone away, and I was able to start a connection fine. Continuum runs Sparc Red Hat. % tail ERRORS X4: shutdown on signal 15 Fb: shutdown on signal 15 setupmem: Can't open shared memory, error 77 Daemon not running (err:77) Daemon not running (err:77) setupmem: Can't open shared memory, error 77 Daemon not running (err:77) Daemon not running (err:77) setupmem: Can't open shared memory, error 77 shmget: Identifier removed Daemon not running (err:77) Daemon not running (err:77) shmget: Identifier removed -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/