> Can you give an actual example of something that fails? > > -- > Les Mikesell Les, it's not that it fails it is just that plink sends the command and waits for it to complete execution. Even if the shell script uses your nohup syntax, if I put in a long dd as a test command then have plink execute the script, it will actually wait for it to complete and even show dd's output! Sending the command to at worked perfectly! jlc