Gentlemen, On several occasions now I would have liked to start a complete set of (newhidups + upsd + upsmon) in the background, but with significantly more output to syslog. From a cursory look at the code, it looks to me that it might be easy to add an option similar to -D that doesn't stop putting the process into the background. I understand that higher levels of debug would create a lot of syslog output, but for a short run that wouldn't bother me. I would rather not waste my time finding out that I am missing something. So my question is, am I missing something, and if not, could this be added (to server/upsd.c clients/upsmon.c, and drivers/main). A second question would then be, should this also go into the respective configuration files, but I would be quite happy with the command line form. Thanks, AG -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred Ganz alfred-ganz@agci.com AG Consulting, Inc. (203) 624-9667 440 Prospect Street # 11 New Haven, CT 06511 ----------------------------------------------------------------------