1. permissions on /tmp Fix: chmod ga+w /tmp 2. permissions on the vi recover file Fix: rmdir /var/tmp/vi.recover/ 3. /dev/null permissions Fix: chmod ga+w /dev/null For now... -- David N. Welton ( Circa mea pectora davidw@prosa.it ) multa sunt suspiria http://www.efn.org/~davidw ( de tua pulchritudine debian.org + prosa.it ) que me ledunt misere