Hi, here is a patch for the quirk in 2.2 kernels I reported yesterday. I mostly took the changes from 2.4.9 to 2.4.10, see http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2001/Sep/0152.html, and applied them to 2.2.25. Thus it is based on the patch by Christoph Hellwig. Keywords: access() system call, X_OK, sys_access(), permission(), vfs_permission(), execute, x-bit, root, uid 0, bash, test -x, /usr/bin/access -x, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires: /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied Please make sure you CC me if you reply as I'm not subscribed. -- Peter 'Rattacresh' Backes, rtc@helen.PLASMA.Xg8.DE