Here's the big duh. If you try to run ELF binaries on a a.out host system, i.e. running native ps,w,top compiled ELF, you need elf ld.so, etc, in /usr/libexec{/elf?}. -- [ Joseph Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] [ http://srcsys.org ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ Proud {Free,Net}BSD User; (Obj)C(++) Programmer ] [ http://xMach.org ]