Hi We have a mission critical Dell rackmount server. I tried to reboot it via an ssh session and it just kept running! The command I used was: [root at vle tmp]# shutdown -r now Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Tue Oct 10 08:28:44 2006): The system is going down for reboot NOW! Looking at /var/log/messages it says: Oct 10 08:28:44 vle shutdown: shutting down for system reboot But the server just keeps on running!!! I have an identical hot backup box and it happily rebooted this morning. Any suggestions most welcome... Thanks Clive