Michael, the rc.local AIX example for restarting the LDM at boot time looks like: LDMBIN=/opn/ldm/bin if [ -x $LDMBIN/ldmadmin ] ; then PATH=$PATH:$LDMBIN:/usr/local/bin; export PATH echo "starting $LDMBIN/rpc.ldmd using ldmadmin start." /bin/su - ldm -c "$LDMBIN/ldmadmin start" fi This is also described in the Site Managers guide in the "Ensuring that the LDM System is Started at Boot Time" section Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support