Hi Christer, > d`oh! > > just my fault. > i was going over from ext2 to ext3, and i fucked my /etc/fstab a bit. > now, with the "exec" flag it works :) > thanks for all help :) Glad you got it sorted out, I should think it is very easy to make a mistake when changing a whole file system. At least it wasn't an XSteem problem, I was worried I'd fouled something up again! Russ -- Manage your list membership - //www.freelists.org/ Steem - http://www.blimey.strayduck.com/