I'm new to OpenBDS too, but I already have similar problem with my box. I ws misconfigured my firewall(pf.conf). Try to doublecheck yours. Petri On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, OpenBSD wrote: > I looked at maillog and saw one strange thing: > SYSERR(root): File descriptors missing on startup: stdout, stderr: Bad file descriptor > > What to do ? Any suggestions ? > > thanks in advance > > all the best