Currently 'make install' clobbers configuration files, in particular /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf. It shouldn't. Does anyone know how to persuade automake to stop it from doing this? As far as I can see the only way would be to write a custom install rule. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top