Ah, you are very observant, Jan : concentrating on the word "leading", I had completely overlooked that Norbert had earlier observed that the user probably had HOME set as "/home/pat/". Thank you for pointing out my mistake. ** Phil. -------- Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > Hi Philip, > He probably meant a trailing slash: > > /home/user > > instead of > > /home/user/ > > Hauke