If you are looking for example scripts to help you use slacktrack please visit: http://www.interlude.org.uk/unix/slackware Download the examples archive, for inside that archive is a wealth of useful example scripts. Quick example: -------------- I will build the elvis editor that you can find in Slackware's 'a' series. bourbon [root] # cd slackware-current/source/a bourbon [elvis] # slacktrack -gfenzKSUIp elvis-2.41-i486-1.tgz ./elvis.build bourbon [elvis] # tar ztvvf /tmp/elvis-2.41-i486-1.tgz | head -n9 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003-07-11 09:26:05 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003-07-11 09:26:04 usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/bin 0 2003-07-11 09:26:05 usr/bin/ -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 301280 2003-07-11 09:26:05 usr/bin/elvis -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 19956 2003-07-11 09:26:05 usr/bin/ref -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 15160 2003-07-11 09:26:05 usr/bin/elvtags -rwxr-xr-x root/bin 936180 2002-06-08 00:15:29 usr/bin/vim drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003-07-11 09:26:01 usr/share/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003-07-11 09:26:04 usr/share/elvis-2.1_4/ bourbon [elvis] # As you can see, I now have an elvis package with the correct ownerships set on the binary files and so on and so forth. Stuart.