Hi , oooops , missed the link to ldp.dsl in my previous post, so here it is. http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/*checkout*/LDP/builder/dsssl/ldp.dsl?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain cheers dushyanth -- Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny http://symonds.net/~dushy