> And, yes it is a learning experience. I did the 'rm > -rf / ' trick once > several years ago. Never again. ;-) Just yesterday I took out our hosting server with a simple typo. I wiped out our entire vhosts directory, taking all web spaces for every client in seconds! Accidents can happen. Only use root when you absolutely must. - Jamie P.S. Frequent and thorough backups are also a must, even on home systems. Thanks to the daily backup scripts I was running, I only had to grab a tarball and unpack it to bring everything back to the way it was at 12:30 am that day. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover