Hm, it's working again, I just don't know why. I let firstboot run again because I wanted to troubleshoot another problem, reenabled the RH- Firewall in it und suddenly it works again. I disabled it again and rebooted several times since then and portmap is still responding. Weird. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com