On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, seth vidal wrote: > what is metadata_expire set to on the affected systems? Thanks. I'd never noticed that configuration item (obviously very stupid). It was set to 72000, which seems a bizarre default for Scientific Linux. I've put it down to 0 and that works great! Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053