To get Realplayer8 to work in RH9,I put the line export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 into my /etc/profile as follows; export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -r "$i" ]; then . $i fi Was this the correct way to do this? Dirk -- "Quality is Insurance", Wes Revell, 2002