Ooohh, I'm sooo stupid..... "Someone" linked .mc/history against /dev/null because he didn't want a history.... (much in the style of linking .bash_history -> /dev/null ... ) Now what happens? Ofcourse, chmod .mc/history.... -> chmod the file /dev/null to 0600 :-( "Bug" solved: It's a feature. So sorry. :-( Yours Alex