In a sudden (and late) moment of epiphany, I just realized (while writing a note to our CSA to please put the new server's startup in the machines boot cycle) that when we reboot (*every* monday morning in the wee hours) it's not terribly likely that anyone's going to be around to feed the password to the startup query. This really needs to be automated. Help? =o) Paul ===== Friends are those who, when you must inconvenience them, are less bothered by it than you. ;o] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/