H Doncho, > How much time does it take it to give this message? Generally speaking you Thanks, very much! it gives the error immediately. > should call /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron, which will tell updatedb what > not to index (ex: /dev, /proc, /sys, /selinux, /tmp...). Maybe one of > these pseudo filesystems is causing the problem, try mlocate.cron? i had never heard of mlocate.cron. so i tried /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron and this seems to have done the trick. thanks, trotter ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz