Hi, Sometimes when I use 'serctl stop', there are still some ser threads running and one has 'ser <defunct>'. The following is a 'ps' result. 3197 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/ser -P /var/run/ser.pid 3212 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/ser -P /var/run/ser.pid 3232 ? Z 0:00 [ser <defunct>] Any sugguestion? Thanks, Richard __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/