nmcphillips, I can do that (Cuddles is feeling a little better now, thanks )

Stephen,
Ok, I got ident/auth in GuardDog set to accept - both on internet, and local now...
I also did a lsmod, and I have the stuff you posted running (displayed) on my screen too

But, I still get those durn messages from xinetd on boot and shutdown...

Considering I don't need xinetd, I was thinking I was just going to delete xinetd from being fired off inside SysV - but I did have inetd running before - I removed them, and left the xinetd setup - Can't I just stop xinetd from running? (since it seems to be the problem issue here?

Problem is, I don't recall where inetd was in the order of start-up and shutdown numbers (priorities or something) - and when I tried to add inetd into one of the levels, it yelled about its priority number not being known, and can't place it correctly - when I looked at the properties of "inetd" - its priority number is set to 0 (zero)

I think I need inetd (this is the correct spelling, and process), or I need to know what I need to do for xinetd... So, do I put back inetd, and if so, where does it go? Or, if I just use xinetd, what do I need to do to get rid of these pesky messages?

Thanks Stephen for all your work on this, it really helps a newb
Cuddles