> if somebody knows how to retrieve the file? > i used rm command Look in your home directory for the tmp directory. Some distributions link the rm command to the mv command and actually move a file you delete into HOME/tmp rather than actually erasing the file. It's also possible that any file you rm is actually moved someplace else. You might want to check your personal and/or system login-in files (/etc/profile, HOME/.profile, HOME/.bash_profile, etc) for pertinent alias commands and such. -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@xxxxxxxxx -- http://mlake.net - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html