I am using redhat 9, but I had just enabled ftp. I opened up port 21 and I thought I was using vsfp. I don't know what happened beyond that. I reinstalled rh9, left the firewall on high security and shut it down. I will work on it tonight (unplugged from the network). TOM _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list