On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:47, Joey Hess wrote: > David Jarvie wrote: > > Permissions on root directories: all have as a minimum, 755. /tmp/ > > and /var/tmp have 777. > > Have you checked the permissions of / ? Having it not world readable can > definitly cause this problem. Ah! So obvious when you think of it - yes, that was the cause. But why the permissions should have changed, I have no idea. Thank you for the help. -- David Jarvie.