>> My solution was simply chmod 700 /etc/crash on all my systems. > Obviously nobody at your site debugs crashed kernels... > (Or they don't use crash.) Or they do it as root, which I would want to be whenever doing kernel-level hacking anyway - "adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/mem" doesn't work too well otherwise. :-) der Mouse mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu