Hi Greg, suidperl is installed and in the path: whereis suidperl suidperl: /usr/bin/suidperl ls -lsa /usr/bin/suidperl 1108 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1126686 Sep 9 2002 /usr/bin/suidperl I am Using Suse Linux 8.1 with perl 5.8.0 any other hints? regards, harald BTW: I have read that Suidperl is being deprecated in 5.8 and may be totally removed in 5.10.