On Fri, 4 Aug 95 10:52 EDT, edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca (Dirk Eddelbuettel) said: > Peter Tobias kindly provided me with a patch from linux-net that > gets rid of annoying "Timed out (dirsend)" errors that seem to show > up in Linux only. Those errors show up all the time under SunOS and Solaris as well. (I guess I'll try compiling your patched version on my Sun machines. :-) --Mike