On Apr 01, 2002 00:27 +0400, Sergey Ulanov wrote: > [sergey@gleam sergey]$ id > uid=502(sergey) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel),13(news),512(ftpadmin),513(dos) > [sergey@gleam sergey]$ echo >test > [sergey@gleam sergey]$ stat test > File: "test" > Size: 1 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 Regular File > Device: 30bh/779d Inode: 1853 Links: 1 > Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 100/ UNKNOWN) Gid: ( 5/ tty) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Access: Sun Mar 31 23:49:52 2002 > Modify: Sun Mar 31 23:49:52 2002 > Change: Sun Mar 31 23:49:52 2002 Maybe it is your glibc? You should run this under "strace" to see what is actually being passed to the kernel. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert