Hello, The above is on a CentOS 5.3 machine, a vps actually. I started seeing it a few weeks ago when i was trying to get an ssh-key program called keychain going. It required an entry in ~/.bash_profile after that i started seeing the above error and compiles kept failing or tasks wouldn't complete. I commented out the lines that started keychain, and for measure rebooted the box. For the second time in the past 24 hours i'm seeing this error again. I've never seen it before and am open to suggestions. Thanks a lot. Dave.