noting the comments made about using this a as free support service , I'm probally going to get flamed for asking this one ! starting executable script in Mandrake , are there any major differences between mandrake and redhat ? ie if a script is executable as root, and is shown so from a "ls -l" and if say the file was called "fred" is there a reason I should get the response " bash: ./fred :no such file or directory". I'm porting a system over from Suse 7.0 , there's nothing I can see in these scripts to cause this. Any one got a idea to point me in the right direction Thanks Richard