> that shouldn't happen, but it wouldn't if the backgrounding weren't > happening. Really? Still, even if I have a while sleep 1 ; do ls /afs/pdc.kth.se/ >/dev/null 2>&1 done running in one window since before and during=20 /etc/init.d/afs start in another window, it probably should not do > > =A0kernel:[ =A0157.595464] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP at any point. Harald.