Can someone explain this. When you run named using the init.d script the following things happen: 1, The proc directory appears in /var/named/chroot 2. A link that can only be followed by root between /etc/named.conf and /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf 3. Then when you run df you get a result that does not refer to /dev/proc being mounted on /proc 4. However if you run df as a normal user you get something like this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 17584528 14897032 1779824 90% / /dev/shm 257420 0 257420 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 1019240 620428 346200 65% /hda2 df: `/var/named/chroot/proc': Permission denied sol:/users 207409664 124978336 71895488 64% /users Why suddenly is df concerned about /var/named/chroot/proc? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484