*grin* well, I am certainly NOT God when it comes to answers ... but I haven't come across any issues with having a .bashrc in my root account. If I were on a production system. I would remove pretty much everything out of roots path depending on what I was doing ..and make it so full path execution were needed..but then again I am paranoid ;) * Jethro Cramp (jsc@zoo.co.uk) [010307 23:33]: =>Thanks Ben, => =>I was wondering (but didn't say) if there was a reason that root doesn't =>have a .bachrc e.g for security reasons. => =>I guess as you've said I can make a .bashrc file in /root then I guess it is =>OK! -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.