I have a simple script in my home directory on a RH5.2 system. All this script does is tail a log file and greps the output. Nothing fancy and it works well. it is normally, -rwxr-xr-x 1 darryl darryl 71 Apr 8 23:03 checkspeed But lately it has been changing it's permissions. When I login now it appears as; -rw-r-xr-x 1 darryl darryl 71 Apr 8 23:03 checkspeed Notice the loss of "x" for owner ??? What would cause this to change? Just as a check, I copied this file to another name, and it's perms had changed too. How can I find out what is causing this? it never used to do it, but obviously I have updated an RPM and something in there has changed this behavior.. Maybe SAMBA? Any ideas? Darryl -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.