Hi, I don't know about other Unices but at least IRIX has it's /bin/true and /bin/false set to shell scripts as well. It seems that Debian's no worse off than SGIs and other Linux distributions at least. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .