Boy, THAT was close. My bind/name-d(for those who want to know how to pronounce it)/dns server was fritzing out.
Couldn't ndc reload ndc restart I could ndc stop but it didn't really stop anything. I kept getting socket errors and it wouldn't re-establish my server with the updates i'd been working on... So telinit 1 took me to runlevel 1, and then ^D continued on to runlevel 2. Gladly, ndc/named/bind/dns/whateverthenomdejouris is working again... And i didn't have to mess with my uptime. Whew! 8:24am up 391 days, 9:20, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.07, 0.01 Close call, there... :) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #10 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking to run a command or two at REGULAR INTERVALS? Try "crontab -e" for starters (see "man cron" or "man crontab"). You might also investigate the "anacron" package. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...