Whilst I was pretending to study, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	All the binaries on a sysinst disk are crunched into one
> 	executable, that then decides behaviou based on the name by
> 	which its called.
> 
> 	Another option might be
> 	'rm /sbin/ping'
> 	'echo exit 0 > /sbin/ping'
> 	'chmod 755 /sbin/ping'
> 
> 	:)

Wondeful! my undying thanks! (it worked<biggrin>) 

Have Fun,
Jim.