>if you have LILO, you can do . >shutdown -r -q >so it reboots without quitting every app (I suppose it only syncs, >killteam(foreach team), then reboot). /bin/shutdown communicates with the registrar, just sends it a particular BMessage, and this roster in turn does the "quit requested" thing with all regsitered BApplications. (and the "tidying things up a bit" label probably maps to a sync() indeed since I've typically seen it stick long enough on screen to be readable, when I had lots of recent disk activity only). -- http://cdegea.free.fr/ | BeDev E-16870 "What's oil got to do, got to do with it" -- F02 Chorus