In article <KHEBLEBNMEBBNPOIPNFIKEJJCAAA.marco at ccom.uminho.pt>, Marco Teixeira <marco at ccom.uminho.pt> wrote; } Already checked permissions. Even tryed } to run it as SuperUser but gave me the same } error. Are you sure changing directory to /usr/local/news/db as news is ok? -- Katsuhiro Kondou