On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:50:35AM -0500, jim lawrence wrote: > > i have some files in my trash i would like to delete but they are > owned by "1058" > any ideas? In your trash ??? In some cases tar and other tool will extract files with UID not equal to the current user. If you own the directory you can clean it out. Do an "ls -ld Trash" so we can see. In some cases there will be a dir owned by 1058 full of files owned by 1058. If you own the dir you can chown the owner of the dir then the files etc. If you just move them to /tmp normal house keeping will tidy them up eventually. Since you moved them into the Trash dir you should be able to move them to /tmp. -- T o m M i t c h e l l spam unwanted email. SPAM, good eats, and a trademark of Hormel Foods.