On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 18:54 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > Try 'locate .lck' and 'locate .lock' and see if anything turns up that > shouldn't be there. Surely that's only going to find them if the locate database has been written since the lock file was created? So, you'd either have to update the database, first. Or, use a tool that searched the drive, directly. e.g. find -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.