If you're using a recent version of GNU libc you know what I mean. They are annoying as hell and there seems to be no way to disable them cleanly. Here's a hack: cd /lib perl -pe 's/gnu\.warning\.(tempnam|tmpnam|tmpnam_r)/gnu.wanting.\1/g' \ < libc-2.2.3.so > /tmp/libc-2.2.3.so cp -b /tmp/libc-2.2.3.so libc-2.2.3.so No warranty implied. :-) Neil