Hi! My troubles are not over! Postgres are up and running, but I receive the following error message in pgaccess when I try to import a file into a table in postgres: "COPY "Gravtype" FROM '/home/larsf/DATA/gravtype.txt' USING DELIMITERS '"' PostgreSQL error mesage: ERROR: COPY command, running in backend with effective uid 26 could not open file '/home/larsf/DATA/gravtype.txt' for reading. Errno = Permission denied (13)." This indicated some sort of permission trouble, so I first tried to change the ownership of the file (gravtype.txt) to "postgres"; but it changed notting; so I figure its' me who's running postgres with insufficent permissions! But how to change this? Sorry for these recurring newbie questions, but I cant figure out this from the documentation. Regards larsf PS; Someone mailed me and said that regarding my previous troubles getting postgres startet I should have received a mail (root I guess) which should have explained how to get it going. I cant find such a mail now, so I guess something failed there to during my overall installation of v 7.0 of SuSE. -- -------------------------- Lars Forseth http://www.uio.no/~forseth MS WIN > /dev/null TUX rules --------------------------