Hello! For several years we had some group-names spelled out in Cyrillics on the server. That worked in 4.10 and seems to continue to work in 6.2. Except for the following daily warnings, which we never saw in 4.x: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 03:08:36 -0500 (EST) From: Charlie Root <root@bonkers....> Message-Id: <200702020808.l1288auN015440@bonkers....> To: root@bonkers.... Subject: bonkers.... daily run output [...] Backup passwd and group files: Verifying group file syntax: chkgrp: /etc/group: line 37: '?' invalid character chkgrp: /etc/group: line 38: '?' invalid character chkgrp: /etc/group: line 38: '?' invalid character chkgrp: /etc/group: line 38: '?' invalid character [...] ------------------------------------------------------- Why does it care? Thanks! -mi