Hi Andreas,
Looking through /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape I found something like chmod -f -R go-rxw $HN & where $HN is $HOME/.netscape
The chmod seems to be ok, I wonder why it went into Zombie state....
That script is a SuSE Script :-(
afx
This is fairly easy: chmod -f -R go-rxw $HN & # # Start # dd if=$p of=/dev/null bs=8k conv=sync > /dev/null 2>&1 preloader $p exec $p ${1+"$@"} chmod is backgrounded. The shell forks, the child exec()s chmod. In the meanwhile, the parent shell execs the netscape binary, which has no reason to await a child. In particular, it is unlikely that netscape starts up fast enough to be able to install the signal handler before the child returns. Regards, Roman. -- _ _ | Roman Drahtmüller "Freedom means that you can choose | CC University of Freiburg what you want to learn at a given | email: draht@uni-freiburg.de time." A. Becker, 1999 | - - People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.