Hope this finds it way to somewhere that help Assuming you followed the instructions for creating the swat file in /etc/xinetd.d directory. In the swat file, make sure that the server option is pointing to where swat is actually stored. Search for it and make sure the path is correct. If you followed the instructions that I used the directory in the instructions is not where swat is stored on my SuSE linux box. I had to change my /etc/xinetd.d/swat ASCII file to use "server = /usr/sbin/swat". danZ Check in /etc/