I never thought I would see it ............ mgetty actually quit responding. it seems everytime the log files rotate mgetty forgets what it is doing and quits answering the modems it does not even write to the log files. I am using RedHat 5.0 Kernel 2.0.32 mgetty-1.1.9-Aug17 Can anyone shead some light on this for me and advise if upgrading mgetty will or will not fix the problem. thanks in advance -- robert