Alex Owen wrote: > rm -rf /var/log/* > Would you not be better to just truncate the files in /var/log? > for name in /var/log/* ; do cat </dev/null >/$name ; done nifty! i like that one. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/