Hello, I figured it out. There was one directory in the path to my script that did not have read access for the world. Got that corrected and now its working fine. C. J. Keist Email: cjay at engr.colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301