Err, this is embarassing..... I had a perfectly working 2.0 system, but because I have now opened a second ISP account with Demon I decided to have a look for scripts on the Demon ftp site. I duly found a package for Slackware, and decided to unzip and untar it to see what scripts it contained which might helpas a guide to setting up my second ppp/pap connection via Demon. By mistake (cringe...) I managed to copy the files to my (Debian 2.0) system and the copies overwrote my Debian files. I have managed to sort out a lot of the resulting Debian-Slackware hybrid mess, but a couple of things I can't find out how to rectify:
1) I can log in as root o.k. (using 2.0.33 boot disk) but some commands only work if I do additionally su, and some don't work at all. If I try to do man pppd, for example, I get "libdb2.so.2 : permission denied". If I do updatedb then locate works fine, but after the next reboot the db has vanished again. 2) If I try to log in as user account atheris I get a column of 1000.1000 instead of atheris.atheris (although if I do ls -la /home/atheris from root, then atheris.atheris appears). Also, bash does not read the local .bashrc/..bash_profile but instead tells me "/etc/profile : permission denied". In the case of my wife's account I get the same and 1001.1001 instead of katya.katya. In neither case can I run any commands. /etc/profile is there, wr - r -r , but bash will not read it. Anyone know how to fix this self-inflicted grief? Obviously somewhere Slackware has altered permissions or some other things, but after two days of scouring the system I still can't find where. TIA Adrian Monk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]