root at palmetto:~# time obmcutil 2>&1 > /dev/null real 0m3.301s user 0m3.030s sys 0m0.230s root at palmetto:~# obmcutil poweron = None The above is really confusing as to what is actually going on... does that mean success? Does that mean there's no power? Does that mean no action was taken? -- Stewart Smith OPAL Architect, IBM.