> You misunderstood. David is saying that /bin may be a symlink, > instead of a directory. Indeed I did, and indeed they are: root@sbox:~# ls -lh / | egrep bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 16 10:39 bin -> usr/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 16 10:39 sbin -> usr/sbin -- Glenn English