I always thought that /usr/local was defined to be an area left alone by the operating system. For many years, we have made it a symlink to a read-only directory in AFS space. This has worked fine - until now. When I tried to update the "filesystem" package, it failed because it tried to do chmods on (at least) /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc. Why is it doing this? Is /usr/local no longer truly local? thanks, Steve Gaarder System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA [log in to unmask]