>I have a perl-script which does a `/usr/bin/touch FILE` Consider using this: open(TMP, ">FILE") || die "FILE: $!"; close TMP; instead. Life's too short to fork+exec just to create a file. >I tried setting $GID=$EGID in several places to see if this makes a >difference, but not. The GID and EGID names only work if you say `use English;' - you have to use $( and $) otherwise. RTFM perlvar(1). ttfn/rjk