Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AO> if you only wanted to change the local dot files... oh well... AO> we all learn and remember the hard way... :-) AO> shoulda been: chmod pattern ~/.*
...which will still catch ~/. and ~/.., which you don't want. (Particularly as root, whose home directory is conventionally /root; /root/.. is the system root directory, which gets you back into the same mess that you started as.) A good reminder: if you're not sure about what you're doing, it's a good idea to (a) not run them as a priviledged user (root) without checking first, and (b) check commands you're not sure of by putting 'echo' on the front first to see what the shell will turn them into. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
