hi, i have made an installation using pd and am migrating it to a planetccrma box from a windows machine - i need the patch to open automaticaly when the system boots up - in windows i just put a shortcut to my .bat file in the startup folder which worked fine. how do i do this in Linux? also i have stupidly locked myself out my root account by: chsh -s /sbin/nologin i thought this would bypass the login procedure - whoops! how can i get my root account back? this is my real problem at the moment thanks, rob www.robcanning.utvinternet.com