Scott Silva wrote: > I don't know of an easy way to fix this. Root is dangerous! > Guns aren't dangerous. People are dangerous. Anyway. In case one wanted to do a little chown'ing above and beyond the scope of most necessity again, the proper way to deal with the -R recursion nightmare is by executing it on .??* and ??*. That will, of course skip anything that has a 2-character name, but that's usually okay, because it will keep you from recursively chown'ing "..". Just in case nobody comes out and says it.. Peter -- Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> http://www.infostreet.com "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing." -Earnest Hemingway "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown "Do you wanna go fast or suck?" -Mike Kojima "There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love." -Sir Stirling Moss