First of all, sorry for the cross posting, but I'm not sure of the source of the problems (other than myself). SuSE v7.1/KDE3/AMD Athlon/256 MB RAM I couldn't understand why a 21GB partition, that was only a week or so old, should be 80% full. Then I discovered that /var/temp had many, many entries sortnnn.nnnnn (where n is an integer) each 8366493 bytes. When I deleted them the partition usage shrank to 15%. The other thing that I noticed was that the system monitor was showing a high cpu usage although I was only sitting at the monitor watching. What is running in the background, generating all of those sort files, and how do I turn it off? I inadvertantly stumbled on to a solution (perhaps temporary) to one problem, but an fighting some others,. I had a devil of a time getting the system to realize that I was connected to my isp, but finally succeeded by running wvdial in a terminal window (it can't keep the modem connected if I run it as a KDE app). None of the mail clients that I've tried can connect to the mail server at my isp, Netscape, Balsa, KMail - they all claim that they cannot connect to the host. I suspect that is a system problem, rather than the individual app, however if I log on to the mail server at my isp using a browser, both Netscape and Opera work, I can read my mail. I'd like a solution to this problem, I'm getting tired of having to reboot into Win98 just to read mail. Thanks in advance.