The amcheck debug file on the server looked like a normal amcheck (other than taking 30 seconds to complete): -------------------------------------------------------------------- amcheck: debug 1 pid 7865 ruid 0 euid 0 start time Fri Apr 20 17:59:42 2001 amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.767 amcheck: pid 7865 finish time Fri Apr 20 18:00:12 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem, it turns out, was that ipchains had been installed on the server during the Red Hat 7.1 install. Since the machine is already inside our company firewall I removed ipchains and now everything works. Thanks John, for your time and for responding. David Carter McLeodUSA Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] 281-465-1835