On 06/07/2012 06:55 AM, Mark Benson wrote: Howabout starting it as a daemon (running as root) via the boot scripts, and have non-root users's programs access it via a socket? Cool idea - you could even have multiple hosts connect this way but export one DECNET endpoint, i.e. run CTERM on Box A whilst FAL goes to Box B, and MAIL to Box C :) Yes, you could multiplex/demultiplex it any way you wanted. It would open up all sorts of interesting configuration possibilities. ... and all this without needing to dick with the kernel? Sounds like a plan gentlemen, so now all we need is a long suffering coder type to do all the hard work ;) I'm already under the gun for a buttload of ARM7 code for work (which is the only reason I'm still awake at this ungodly hour)...so not me, at least not yet. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA