Re the query I posted earlier about the race for port 8009. I plan to use the following shellscript approach to make sure tomcat is listening on port 8009 before I start Apache: /usr/tomcat/bin/startup.sh while [ -z "$(netstat -t -l -n | grep 0:8009)" ]; do sleep 1; done /etc/sbin/httpd start Can any one see anything wrong with this approach? Know of anything better? Chris Evesham England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]