Hi, Never seen this before but this morning 'ps' and the like randomly stopped working.. david@prototype:~$ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND david@prototype:~$ david@prototype:~$ uname -a Linux prototype 2.4.1 #1 Tue Jan 30 01:45:38 PST 2001 i686 unknown david@prototype:~$ uptime 10:46am up 7:25, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.14, 0.09 But if I wait for a little bit and run it again it works, then stops working.. and so on. Linux prototype 2.4.1 #1 Tue Jan 30 01:45:38 PST 2001 i686 unknown Kernel modules 2.4.1 Gnu C 2.95.3 Gnu Make 3.79.1 Binutils 2.10.1.0.2 Linux C Library 2.2.1 Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.2.1 Procps 2.0.7 Mount 2.10q Net-tools 2.05 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 2.0.11 Modules Loaded NVdriver -- David Raufeisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cell: (604) 818-3596 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/