diff --git a/defaults/yacy.init b/defaults/yacy.init
index 1516677dd..dbbc5a75c 100644
--- a/defaults/yacy.init
+++ b/defaults/yacy.init
@@ -435,14 +435,6 @@ browserPopUpTrigger=true
 browserPopUpPage=Status.html
 browserPopUpApplication=netscape
 
-# the proxy saves it's own seed information. It is positive for the network if
-# the seed does not change it's configuration often (or not at all).
-# The reason for that is that the seed hash is the target for the
-# distributed hash table distribution function.
-# The following file will contain the saved seed:
-yacyOwnSeedFile=DATA/YACYDB/mySeed.txt
-yacyDB=DATA/YACYDB
-
 # index sharing attributes: by default, sharing is on.
 # If you want to use YaCy only for local indexing (robinson mode),
 # you may switch this off
diff --git a/killYACY.sh b/killYACY.sh
index 6c44e28f0..9790166f2 100755
--- a/killYACY.sh
+++ b/killYACY.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # To stop YaCy, use stopYACY.sh
 
 cd `dirname $0`
-PID=`fuser DATA/LOG/yacy00.log | awk '{print $2}'`
+PID=`fuser DATA/LOG/yacy00.log | awk '{print $1}'`
 echo "process-id is " $PID
 kill -3 $PID
 sleep 1
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSwitchboard.java b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSwitchboard.java
index 202f75121..7363a8a2a 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSwitchboard.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSwitchboard.java
@@ -627,8 +627,6 @@ public final class plasmaSwitchboard extends serverAbstractSwitch<plasmaSwitchbo
      * <p>Name of the setting how many active crawler-threads may maximal be running on the same time</p>
      */
     public static final String CRAWLER_THREADS_ACTIVE_MAX       = "crawler.MaxActiveThreads";
-
-    public static final String OWN_SEED_FILE                    = "yacyOwnSeedFile";
     public static final String YACY_MODE_DEBUG                  = "yacyDebugMode";
     public static final String WORDCACHE_INIT_COUNT             = "wordCacheInitCount";
     /**
@@ -814,11 +812,6 @@ public final class plasmaSwitchboard extends serverAbstractSwitch<plasmaSwitchbo
      * @see bookmarksDB for more detailed overview about the bookmarks structure
      */
     public static final String DBFILE_BOOKMARKS_DATES   = "bookmarkDates.db";
-    /**
-     * <p><code>public static final String <strong>DBFILE_OWN_SEED</strong> = "mySeed.txt"</code></p>
-     * <p>Name of the file containing the database holding this peer's seed</p>
-     */
-    public static final String DBFILE_OWN_SEED          = "mySeed.txt";
     /**
      * <p><code>public static final String <strong>DBFILE_CRAWL_PROFILES</strong> = "crawlProfiles0.db"</code>
      * <p>Name of the file containing the database holding all recent crawl profiles</p>
@@ -2057,14 +2050,6 @@ public final class plasmaSwitchboard extends serverAbstractSwitch<plasmaSwitchbo
         }
     }
     
-    /**
-     * Creates a new File instance with absolute path of ours Seed File.<br>
-     * @return a new File instance
-     */
-    public File getOwnSeedFile() {
-        return getConfigPath(OWN_SEED_FILE, DBFILE_OWN_SEED);
-    }
-    
     /**
      * With this function the crawling process can be paused
      * @param jobType 
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndex.java b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndex.java
index 84e3bc86f..1e3e55720 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndex.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndex.java
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ public final class plasmaWordIndex implements indexRI {
         // create or init seed cache
         File networkRoot = new File(this.primaryRoot, "NETWORK");
         networkRoot.mkdirs();
-        File mySeedFile = new File(networkRoot, "mySeed.txt");
+        File mySeedFile = new File(networkRoot, yacySeedDB.DBFILE_OWN_SEED);
         File oldSeedFile = new File(new File(indexPrimaryRoot.getParentFile(), "YACYDB"), "mySeed.txt");
         if (oldSeedFile.exists()) oldSeedFile.renameTo(mySeedFile);
         seedDB = new yacySeedDB(
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyCore.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyCore.java
index 708b5892e..5a4ba2182 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyCore.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyCore.java
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ public class yacyCore {
         
         // create a peer news channel
         RSSFeed peernews = RSSFeed.channels(RSSFeed.PEERNEWS);
-        peernews.setMaxsize(1000);
         peernews.addMessage(new RSSMessage("YaCy started", "", ""));
 
         loadSeedUploadMethods();
@@ -406,7 +405,7 @@ public class yacyCore {
 
             // going through the peer list and starting a new publisher thread for each peer
             int i = 0;
-            while (si. hasNext()) {
+            while (si.hasNext()) {
                 seed = (yacySeed) si.next();
                 if (seed == null) {
                     sync.P();
@@ -503,17 +502,15 @@ public class yacyCore {
                 log.logInfo("PeerPing: No data, staying at myType: " + sb.wordIndex.seedDB.mySeed().orVirgin());
             }
 
-            if (newSeeds >= 0) {
-                // success! we have published our peer to a senior peer
-                // update latest news from the other peer
-                // log.logInfo("publish: handshaked " + t.seed.get(yacySeed.PEERTYPE, yacySeed.PEERTYPE_SENIOR) + " peer '" + t.seed.getName() + "' at " + t.seed.getAddress());
-                peerActions.saveMySeed();
-                return newSeeds;
-            }
+            // success! we have published our peer to a senior peer
+            // update latest news from the other peer
+            // log.logInfo("publish: handshaked " + t.seed.get(yacySeed.PEERTYPE, yacySeed.PEERTYPE_SENIOR) + " peer '" + t.seed.getName() + "' at " + t.seed.getAddress());
+            sb.wordIndex.seedDB.saveMySeed();
 
             // if we have an address, we do nothing
             if (sb.wordIndex.seedDB.mySeed().isProper() == null && !force) { return 0; }
-
+            if (newSeeds > 0) return newSeeds;
+            
             // still no success: ask own NAT or internet responder
             //final boolean DI604use = switchboard.getConfig("DI604use", "false").equals("true");
             //final String  DI604pw  = switchboard.getConfig("DI604pw", "");
@@ -526,7 +523,7 @@ public class yacyCore {
                 sb.wordIndex.seedDB.mySeed().put(yacySeed.PEERTYPE, yacySeed.PEERTYPE_SENIOR); // to start bootstraping, we need to be recognised as PEERTYPE_SENIOR peer
             log.logInfo("publish: no recipient found, our address is " +
                     ((sb.wordIndex.seedDB.mySeed().getPublicAddress() == null) ? "unknown" : sb.wordIndex.seedDB.mySeed().getPublicAddress()));
-            peerActions.saveMySeed();
+            sb.wordIndex.seedDB.saveMySeed();
             return 0;
         } catch (InterruptedException e) {
             try {
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyNewsPool.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyNewsPool.java
index d8acaac48..cb2fe774f 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyNewsPool.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyNewsPool.java
@@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ public class yacyNewsPool {
     private yacyNewsQueue outgoingNews, publishedNews, incomingNews, processedNews;
     private int maxDistribution;
     
-    
     public yacyNewsPool(File yacyDBPath) {
         newsDB = new yacyNewsDB(new File(yacyDBPath, "news.db"));
         outgoingNews  = new yacyNewsQueue(new File(yacyDBPath, "newsOut.stack"), newsDB);
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
index 13dd715c6..84f237e8f 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
@@ -127,12 +127,6 @@ public class yacyPeerActions {
         seedDB.mySeed().setFlagAcceptRemoteIndex(sb.getConfig("allowReceiveIndex", "").equals("true"));
         //mySeed.setFlagAcceptRemoteIndex(true);
     }
-            
-    public void saveMySeed() {
-        try {
-          seedDB.mySeed().save(sb.getOwnSeedFile());
-        } catch (IOException e) {}
-    }
 
     public void loadSeedLists() {
         // uses the superseed to initialize the database with known seeds
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
index bbc91acb6..1351f6aa5 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ public class yacySeed {
     }
 
     public final void save(File f) throws IOException {
-        final String out = this.genSeedStr('z', null);
+        final String out = this.genSeedStr('p', null);
         final FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(f);
         fw.write(out, 0, out.length());
         fw.close();
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
index 9583189b5..53ff67fd8 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ public final class yacySeedDB implements httpdAlternativeDomainNames {
     public static final int commonHashLength = 12;
     public static final int dhtActivityMagic = 32;
     
+    /**
+     * <p><code>public static final String <strong>DBFILE_OWN_SEED</strong> = "mySeed.txt"</code></p>
+     * <p>Name of the file containing the database holding this peer's seed</p>
+     */
+    public static final String DBFILE_OWN_SEED = "mySeed.txt";
+    
     public static final String[]      sortFields = new String[] {yacySeed.LCOUNT, yacySeed.ICOUNT, yacySeed.UPTIME, yacySeed.VERSION, yacySeed.LASTSEEN};
     public static final String[]   longaccFields = new String[] {yacySeed.LCOUNT, yacySeed.ICOUNT, yacySeed.ISPEED};
     public static final String[] doubleaccFields = new String[] {yacySeed.RSPEED};
@@ -215,6 +221,12 @@ public final class yacySeedDB implements httpdAlternativeDomainNames {
         } catch (IOException e) {}
     }
     
+    public void saveMySeed() {
+        try {
+          this.mySeed().save(myOwnSeedFile);
+        } catch (IOException e) {}
+    }
+    
     public boolean noDHTActivity() {
         // for small networks, we don't perform DHT transmissions, because it is possible to search over all peers
         return this.sizeConnected() <= dhtActivityMagic;