I have noticed other people have this problem so here goes....I started this in another thread (smtp wouldn't authenticate) and came across this problem.... The problem started when I had a bad black out one day. The server lost power after the UPS died, and after that some services don't begin on start up. If I type in : [root@apatula /]# chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on I get: failed to make symlink /etc/rc2.d/S50mysqld: Not a directory failed to make symlink /etc/rc3.d/S50mysqld: Not a directory failed to make symlink /etc/rc5.d/S50mysqld: Not a directory A similar output occurs if I try chkconfig --add ispconfig_server (I saw till use that one in another post) They say no for all run levels. Attached is the output of ls -la /etc as requested by falko -