I modified the /etc/rc.tcpip file to remove the comment in front of the named service. I then rebooted the server and expected named to start up. Not only did named not start up, all the other services which should start up that are after the named line in /etc/rc.tcpip didn't start up either. Before I changed /etc/rc.tcpip, I made a copy of it so I copied the old /etc/rc.tcpip to /etc/rc.tcpip and rebooted expecting all the services that were running previously to start but nothing past named still starts. Smit doesn't have any problems reading /etc/rc.tcpip and it starts all the services that don't get started during the reboot when I run "Start configured tcpip daemons". What could possibly be wrong here. We are running AIX 5.1 on Regattas.