Hi Brett, > Thanks for the info - I never would have known about that. Do I need to > restart anything to make this change take effect? It's actually covered in the "LDM Preinstallation Requirements" http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/ldmPreInstallList.html under the section "Configuring the Operating System as root". But I don't thing it's in the LDM Site Managers Guide ... --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu