Kenneth Porter wrote: > I think my reference to lsattr was a red herring, and that those > attributes are "standard" ones stored in the inode. The extended > attributes are viewed with "getfattr -d filename". (The -d is to dump all > EA's to the screen. "man getfattr" for details.) As a matter of interest, I installed attr.i386 2.4.28-1.2 package (with yum) under FC-5, but getfattr appears to do absolutely nothing: [root@alfred ~]# getfattr -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [root@alfred ~]# -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland