Hi James, as recommended in the miemdefang list(and you), I added this line in mimedefang init file: export HOME=/path/to/home in order to solve the problem I was thinking that /sbin/runuser could unset all variables that was setup by bash in /etc/init.d/mimedefang Thanks Oliver James Olin Oden wrote: > such that I could suggest a solution to your problem. I will say that > in the past I have made the script that is to be ran in that > environment give HOME a default of some sort so if/when it was ran out > of init it would still function properly (BTW, its likely you would > see this in cron too). -- Oliver Schulze L. Get my e-mail after a captcha test in: http://tinymailto.com/oliver