On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:34:15AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > What I did a while ago was to export UID and that seems to work. I > inserted 'export UID' into my .bashrc for now and my test script shows > 1000 now for the numeric value of UID where it was blank before. This The question is whether you have root access from scripts. Have you run chkrootkit lately? Michael