>Works fine for me. Define "short while" (to a geologist, that could be a >few millenia). What is the exit code when your script does terminate? Lol, yeah that was a little weak on my part... It ran for about a minute. I am not sure what caused the non 0 exit, I made a new condition based on a more reliable/sensible test. I am just writing an init script now, we'll see how it fairs! Thanks, jlc