Hello, when I start the delegate demon from within a SSH session, the session hangs upon logout. Lately I came across the same problem for yet another program, too, and there the problem was addressed to "demonize properly", e.g. as described by: http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html#SEC16 The most important trick is to fork() twice, so the process becomes its own process group and is detached from any terminal and process group. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser