Hi Brent: Not sure, it may be possible to divert system messages to a telnet session, but even if it's not, you can always examine /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog if you ever need to read them. Believe me though, you don't need them often. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701