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This same thing had puzzled me for the longest time, but I eventually found the answer. When your startup script is launching processes willy nilly, a table of sorts is created which delineates what process loaded in what order. So if 4 processes are launched consecutively, they are proc. 1, 2, 3, and 4 of course. But, when process 2 ends, the numbers don't shift over, they simply stay as 1, 3, and 4. If you were to execute something at this point, it would fill in the space left by the last process and be called process 2. For instance, right now my shell has a 5> in it's prompt. When I do a NewShell, the new shell has a 2>. Easy, eh? Miguel ——– AP, AP, and away!