Greetings, I believe that the subject of this note might come under the aegis of security - as I have certainly lost some files due to some SuSE configuration script or other. For many months now I have had a soft link from /etc/gtk-2.0 to the directory containing - among other things - the file gdk-pixbuf.loaders which is central to the graphic display of the ROX Filer system. Imagine my horror this morning when loggging on, to receive an error message from the ROX filer indicating that it could not find the file /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders. Opening an X terminal was kindly done by ROX Session and I discovered to my horror that the directory /etc/gtk-2.0 was now a real directory with a file REMOVE_IN_PROGRESS in it. Now the message in that file indicated that some gnome software was now to be found in /opt/gnome (which doesn't really concern me) but that I should re-install everything else - but it didn't care to indicate what 'else' might be involved. I found a copy of the original gdk-pixbuf.loaders file and re-made the link - but am rather worried that not only the link was destroyed - but also the contents of the directory to which it was pointing when YaST re-built yesterday (after uninstalling a superceded version of Amaya). This seems to me to be an integrity problem which comes under security so far as I am concerned. I presume others have had this happen too. What must be done to stop this automagic file removal?? I don't want to lose all of some vital package due to actions being taken behind my back! Keith Hopper -- City Desk Waikato University [PGP key available if desired]