Rick Duvall writes: > Try adding this to your /etc/rc.conf file: > > local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" More importantly: I have this: local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Is it in yours? (Not Rick's - Weldon Godrfrey's.) And if not, why not? (May not have the X11 part if you haven't installed X.) Robert Huff