bah! probably right about the time your were sending this, i executed a df -h. sure enough, my root partition was a 0% availability. thanks! On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > The only time this happened to me was when the partition that contains > /tmp was almost full. You could be running out of inodes, also. > What does df tell you about the partition? > -- steve