Broken pipe errors usually dont cause the system to stop working. Are you sure that this is the cause of the system crashing? It's almost certainly not, even though you may see errors on the console and in the log. On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:20:24 +0100 "Dirk Datzert" <Dirk.Datzert@rasselstein-hoesch.de> wrote: