Hi, I fear I am too stupid: I find nowhere the explanation of the dot in file permissions like: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 457 Aug 4 17:27 config I have searched in forums, Red Hat deployment guide, storage administration guide etc Thank you for help in advance. Best regards Helmut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110913/64882b82/attachment-0004.html>