Hi Mike You wrote: > > does 'ls -al /tmp' turn up any vi looking directories that may > have bad permissions on them?
No, didn't see one. > Btw, I've found the program 'strace' to be extremely useful in > ttracking down stuff like this. Try > > strace -o output nvi somefile Here is the output: ---edited--- open("/usr/share/locale/C/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) brk(0x804d000) = 0x804d000 stat("/etc/locale/C/libc.cat", 0xbffff22c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/lib/locale/C/libc.cat", 0xbffff22c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/lib/locale/libc/C", 0xbffff22c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/share/locale/C/libc.cat", 0xbffff22c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/usr/local/share/locale/C/libc.cat", 0xbffff22c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) --snip-- open("/usr/share/locale/C/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/C/LC_MONETARY", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/C/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/C/LC_TIME", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/C/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/C/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) --snip-- sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [HUP INT ALRM TERM WINCH], NULL) = 0 open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [HUP INT ALRM TERM WINCH], NULL) = 0 --snip-- Okay, that's all the edited output that had error in it. First place I look to find these file was 'Contents' and only files that I could find was LC_* in wg15-locale_1-2.deb but they were not in /usr/share/locale/C/* and no packages use the directory. Others were not even able in other directories. And here is output of ls -al /deb/nu*: crwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 1, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/null Is this look right? Thanks in advance, David p.s. If you need more information, tell me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]