> Any ideas? change the __socket__ permissions, not the process'. Socket permissions are quite strange; in fact, to work with them one needs to have __write__ access to the socket (some OSes seem to blatantly ignore socket permissions at all). p. -- Pierangelo Masarati mailto:pierangelo.masarati@sys-net.it SysNet - via Dossi,8 27100 Pavia Tel: +390382573859 Fax: +390382476497