On Dec 01, 2003 at 19:09, Claus Thrane <thrane(a)dumtsvin.dk> wrote: serctl creates a fifo where it expects ser's reply. It seems the reply fifo created for "moni" has no write permissions for "other". Solutions: - change serctl (search for moni and add "chmod a+w $path" after mkfifo $path) - change umask before running serctl - run serctl sgid or suid ser - run ser as root (in /etc/init.d/ser change -u ser -g ser to -u root) -- not recommended - don't run serctl moni :-) Andrei