I've been using my own sysname scheme ever since we've been able to provide a sysname list. So an i386 normally has ia32_rhel4 and i386_linux26. For RHEL 5 ia32_rhel5 and i386_linux26. Jack Neely -- Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.edu> Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89