Dan, The messages about "world writeable files" are from Mandrake Security (better known as /usr/sbin/msec). The first time it runs, it tells you about all the anomalies it detects - unusual file permision, etc. After that, each time it runs it compares what it finds (today) to what it found yesterday. If there are differences, it will report them. Look in /var/log/security to see the "today" and "yesterday" fils.
David
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