One way to do it would be to make a vfs module and mount the area you want to be different under that module via loopback. so it would automatically put the .dotfiles in a special directory transparently and access to them would occur transparently as well. Eric _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list