garry saddington wrote at 2006-5-30 20:10 +0100: > ... >On Ubuntu Dapper and FC5 however, these os calls fail. How? What happens precisely? In principle, the "Ubuntu" "os" should behave exactly like the Debian "sarge" one (as they are both linux variants). I do not know "FC5", but almost surely, this holds for it as well. -- Dieter