On Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:11:40 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: (snip) >The install of the Slackware package has overwritten the file permissions of >apparently several files and directories.
and Steve Lamb wrote: > Stupid question, is your passwd file there? That is about the only time > I ever see numbers in ls is when the passwd file is fuqed. Thanks to you both for the helpful suggestions (yes my password file is still there and not - as far as I can tell - fuqued, and yes, Slackware had altered the directory permissions on /etc and /var). However: In my /lib directory I have: libBrokenLocale.so.1 -> libBrokenLocale-2.0.6 2776 libBrokenLocale-2.0.6.so I have tried re-installing libdb2.3.16.deb and doing ldconfig, without result, and am unsure how to repair the above error - presumably a linking error. I also ried renaming the above files and then re-installing libdb2, but dpkg then complains that it cannot find libBrokenLocale, which the fuquer apparently needs. Any suggestions? Many thanks IA. Adrian Monk Bedford -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]