Hi "moderator" thank you for your great work. I suffering due to a strange problem, here described: o.s./sw data: Debian Lenny ISPConfig Version: 2.2.35 1. I added some code to force ISPConfig to add a news user to a group, for my o.s. is 'www-data'. http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10287 2. Looking for the code located in: /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_system.lib.php line # 534 function add_user_to_group($group, $user = 'admispconfig'){ the user is added correctly and the whole file /etc/group is updated (re-written). All is ok, I verified it adding after this line: $mod->file->wf($this->server_conf["group_datei"], $new_group_file); 3. just added a new user to the group create (i.e. web100), through the method: $mod->system->add_user_to_group("web100","www-data"); this code: $group_file = $mod->file->rf($this->server_conf["group_datei"]); (then the group file /etc/group is read and saved into the $group_file var) then I send the var via email: mail("[email protected]","group file",$group_file); 4. all is ok I receive the whole content without problems and the www-data group is added. 5. some seconds after this I check with the linux command: groups www-data the output show (only) for few seconds the group added, i.e.: www-data web10 web11 web100 6. I repeat the linux command described above (step 5) and the group added disappeared! what happens?!? Thank you very much for your answer, cordially