On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 02:04:14PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Mr Gerard Gorman thought: > & as a little tip...if the files begin with a "." then chown -R .* isn't > a good thing to do (ie. what happens to ../ ) so instead: > chown -R .[a-zA-Z]* > Been there, done that, ripped the T-Shirt to shreds in frustration!! -- Conor Daly Domestic Sysadmin... :-)