On 2/3/2015 2:32 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > -bash-3.2$ php /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php > [sudo] password for nobody: where did sudo even come into this picture? does this ftp_check.php script fork a shell with sudo or something? sounds like a VERY bad way of doing whatever it is you're trying to do. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast