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Might be a bit of overkill for your needs but Webmin (www.webmin.com) has an integrated file manager (Java based) that's pretty nifty. Of course webmin comes with a shedload of other very powerful features too, but these can be restricted if you need this for your users.

Not an elegant solution I know, but what about having the script rerun itself in the last line ?

AIX 4.3 doesn't have any native mechanisms to do what you want. Your best bet is to upgrade inetd to xinted (http://www.xinetd.org/) it'll do everything you want and more, it really is a vast improvement over inetd, highly recommended. Alternatively you could replace the stock ftpd with wu-ftpd...

I think it kinda depends on what those batch files run from NMENU actually do. I'm guessing they perform various housekeeping tasks, prolly on the Netware volumes, which won't map to Linux filesystems. Taking a look at those batch files, working out what they do and replicating them as shell...

Personally I'd script it, #!/path/to/shell find /home -name badmail | while read file do mv $file $file.old done

I think bash would be the preferred choice, it has (AFAIK) more korn-type functionality than pdksh. Out of interest, why do you need the korn shell ? Just curious.

Is /var/run softlinked to another filesystem maybe ? Have you tried creating the file manually ? touch /var/run/crond.pid

Can your machine resolve hostnames correctly ? ie `nslookup www.cnn.com` If that works then your machine can deliver on it's own. Make sure you've got sendmail running as a daemon, `sendmail -bd -q15m` if it isn't. In this case the DS macro can be null. If the nslookup command bombs then you'll...