On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:25:49 +0900, peter.cutting / tetrapak.com <peter.cutting / tetrapak.com> wrote: > yes the switching off may have helped (will try logging off next time > it happens). moving on > > what process would that be. I would have thought that the only active > process would be the MySQL service. And of course any editors and or > command prompts I have open in the application directory. As far as I > can Ruby and Rails are not continually running processes. > Your webserver should also be running (which could also have the files open, hence the permissions error).