I'm just curious -- what is the purpose of this file given the existance of /etc/limits, which seems to do what lshells does but in a much cleaner way? John -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org