Thanks for the help. :) I posted to the freeBSD list and was given the answer there. in case anyone is interested and for the sake of the archive, I needed a path specified in the shell script. The following URL provides the necessary info for fixing the script. http://linux.dbw.org/shellscript_howto.html again thanks. Ray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php