touch foo.txt chmod 000 foo.txt rm foo.txt rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `foo.txt'? So the behaviour is at least partially shell/profile dependent... I have no idea how this would affect PHP unlink, if at all. ymmv naiaa ianasg [*] [*] sg: shell guru -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php