This is probably a dumb question but (surprisingly) I really hadn't run across this problem before and want to make sure I'm prepared to quickly deal with it in the future as I'm certain that it will happen again. I was making some edits to the XML dialplan and screwed up the syntax a bit. Fortunately I had done a reloadxml and saw the "error near line xxxx" message, so I knew where to look in the .fsxml file to find the error and fixed it. Problem is, when you do a 'service freeswitch start' in Linux you don't get this message, FS never finishes starting up so you can't get into the CLI to see what's going on, and it doesn't show anything in the log file. The only feedback you get is with a 'service freeswitch status' which gives the 'freeswitch dead but subsys locked' message. Is there a startup option to get it to show initialization errors? Can I do something like ./freeswitch in the bin directory and get it to send any initialization errors to stdout or some other file that way? As always, many grateful thanks for the info. Cheers, Phil Quesinberry Q Systems Engineering, Inc. Electronic Controls and Embedded Systems Development (410) 969-8002 http://www.qsystemsengineering.com